[PLUG] Weird Output of a C program in Linux

[Ashutosh Adkar]

On 7/18/07, yogesh tillu <yogesh_tillu2003 at yahoo.co.in> wrote:
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> Aditya Godbole <aag.lists at gmail.com> wrote: On 7/17/07, Pranav Peshwe
> wrote:
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> > IMHO, it does send the data to the buffer. Due to the fork, the new
> > task(child) gets a copy of the buffer (which already contains the 'Hello
> > World!' string). This(fork()) is where the duplication occurs. Further
> > printfs in the two tasks lead to flushing of their respective buffers to
> the
> > console. With a '\n' after 'Hello World!', the child would get an empty
> > buffer to begin with.
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> Yeah, thats right. The buffer is filled but not flushed. After the
> fork, the entire address space (and hence the buffer) gets replicated
> * But I think currently copy on write approach is used for the
> *implementation of the fork .So entire address space will not get
> *replicated {previously clone approach was used , so in that *whole  address
> space gets replicated }
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> and is flushed after the second the printf in both processes.
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> -aditya
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> cheers,
> yogesh


     Yes.Thats right.But isnt the buffer in the user area.Which is copied as
is, except for the pointer to the proc structure.

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Regards,
Ashutosh Adkar