Trying to create a process ring using named pipes for an assignment, and whenever I call read/write to those files it pauses the execution at that point. I've tried everything I could find for hours now, and have no idea why this is happening.
More context: Process ring with named pipes, passing a token between n processes, from a process i to i+1 in each loop.
Any help would be very much appreciated, and thank you for taking the time!
#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <math.h>
#include <errno.h>
#define MAX 50
int main(int argc, char** argv) {
// File descriptors for pipes i and i+1 and token
int fd1, fd2, token = 0;
pid_t pid;
// Pipes path array
char* fifos[2][MAX] = { "pipe1to2" , "pipe2to1" }
...
// Create pipes
for(int i =0 ; i < 2 ; i++){
char* fileToCreate = fifos[i];
if ((mkfifo(fileToCreate,S_IRWXU)) != 0) {
if(errno == 17){ // If a file with the same name exists, this overwrites it
unlink(fileToCreate);
mkfifo(fileToCreate,S_IRWXU);
}else{
printf("Unable to create a fifo; errno=%d\n",errno);
exit(1);
}
}
}
while(true){
char* file = fifos[itr];
fd1 = open(file,O_WRONLY);
if(fd1 == -1){
printf("Open error\n");
return 1;
}
if(write(fd1,token,sizeof(int)) == -1){
printf("Write error");
return 2;
}
close(fd1);
...
}
}
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I am having trouble communicating with the child process. I am trying to make quick.c simply get an input from stdin and send it to sand.c to capitialise it and send it back to the parent and then print it to stdout. Right now the program asks for an input twice instead of only asking once.
this is quick.c
#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/wait.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
int fds[2];
int test[2];
int pid;
pid_t child_a;
char buffer[50], buff[50];
if(pipe(fds)) {
perror("Pipe:");
exit(0);
}
if(pipe(test)) {
perror("Pipe:");
exit(0);
}
child_a = fork();
if (child_a == 0) {
//Child
FILE *f = fdopen(fds[0], "r");
FILE *e = fdopen(test[1], "w");
close(fds[1]);
close(test[0]);
//dup2(fds[0],0); causes infinite loop
dup2(test[1],1);
execlp("./sand", "sand", NULL);
fclose(e);
fclose(f);
} else {
// Parent
// Wrap the pipes
FILE *f = fdopen(fds[1], "w");
FILE *e = fdopen(test[0], "r");
close(fds[0]);
close(test[1]);
fgets(buffer,50, stdin);
fprintf(f,"%s",buffer);
while(fgets(buff, 50, e)) {
printf("Parent receive %s", buff);
}
fflush(stdout);
fclose(f);
fclose(e);
wait(NULL);
}
return 0;
}
This method is sand.c
#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/wait.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <ctype.h>
int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
char buffer[50];
int i = 0;
fgets(buffer,50,stdin);
char chr;
// Loop
while (buffer[i]) {
buffer[i] = toupper(buffer[i]);
i++;
}
fprintf(stdout,"%s",buffer);
return 0;
}
On running the code in my machine, the commented dup2 line does not loop to infinity. That may be because pipe programs run differently on different machines. However, the program terminates after taking input. Here are the things that are wrong with your code:
You aren't waiting for the child to write data to test pipe before printing in the parent. You must put the wait statement after taking input.
You've used file pointers for handling pipes. Pipes are accessed with file descriptors and cause unexpected results when handled with file pointers. Instead of fgets and fprintf, use read and write methods to work with file descriptors.
Error in the execlp command which I've commented.
There are errors regarding buffers, I've commented them in the code where they occur.
This is quick.c
#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/wait.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
int fds[2];
int test[2];
int pid;
pid_t child_a;
char buffer[50], buff[50];
if(pipe(fds)) {
perror("Pipe:");
exit(0);
}
if(pipe(test)) {
perror("Pipe:");
exit(0);
}
child_a = fork();
if (child_a == 0) {
//Child
//CHANGED: No need to open file pointers here. Pipes are already open and accessed by file descriptor instead of file pointer. File pointers create trouble when used with pipes. 0 is file descriptor of stdin, 1 for stdout.
close(fds[1]);
close(test[0]);
dup2(fds[0],0);
dup2(test[1],1);
//CHANGED: There was an error with the command you wrote.
//That's because ./sand arg will look for a 'sand' directory which doesn't exist
//This line will throw warnings because execlp requires needs a command as the second argument, but in this case the filename is the command.
//NOTE: before running quick.c, compile sand.c as sand.out and not a.out
execlp("./sand.out",NULL);
printf("Exec Error\n"); //this will only execute if execlp didn't run. Always have this line in your code to know what's happening.
}
else
{
// Parent
// Wrap the pipes
//Got rid of the file pointers
close(fds[0]);
close(test[1]);
//CHANGE: fgets is only used with file pointers. While handling pipes, we work with file descriptors, with which read and write methods are used
int n = read(0,buffer,50); //If this is new to you, I strongly recommend reading manual pages for read and write, but for right now
// The signature should be enough to understand - read/write(int file_descriptor, char *buffer, int number_of_bytes)
write(fds[1],buffer,n);
//MOST IMPORTANT: You need to wait for child after this point. Because test pipe doesn't have data yet which will be received by child.
wait(NULL);
//CHANGE: printf statements do not work well with buffere, because buffers are not terminated with null
//%s specifier will always look for a null or print garbage
//If you still want to use printf, look into $man bzero
while((n = read(test[0],buff, 50))>0)
{
write(1,buff,n);
}
fflush(stdout);
}
return 0;
}
This is sand.c
#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/wait.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <ctype.h>
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
char buffer[50];
int i = 0;
int n = read(0,buffer,sizeof(buffer)); //changed fgets to read, to get number of bytes read.
char chr;
// Loop
// we have number of bytes. So change while to for
for (i=0;i<n;i++)
{
buffer[i] = toupper(buffer[i]);
}
write(1,buffer,n); //Changed fprintf to write to get rid of %s problem.
//Again, to fill remaining places of buffer with null, look up bzero.
//The reason I haven't done that is to not confuse you with so many changed methods.
return 0;
}
Let me know, if the solution also helps you find the source of the infinity loop.
I'm implementing a pipe in C, where multiples producer programs (9 in my case) write data to one single consumer program.
The problem is that some producers (some times one or two) exit the program abruptly when calling the write() function.
The code is simple, here is the producer code:
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <poll.h>
#define MSG_SIZE_BYTES 4
void send(unsigned int * msg){
int fd, msg_size;
int r;
char buffer [5];
char myfifo[50] = "/tmp/myfifo";
fd = open(myfifo, O_WRONLY);
if(fd == -1){
perror("error open SEND to fifo");
}
r = write(fd, msg, MSG_SIZE_BYTES);
if(r == -1){
perror("error writing to fifo");
}
close(fd);
printf("Message send\n");
}
int main(int argc, char *argv[]){
int cluster_id = atoi(argv[1]);
unsigned int msg[1];
msg[0] = cluster_id;
while(1){
printf("Press a key to continue...\n");
getchar();
send(msg);
}
}
And here is the consumer code
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <poll.h>
#define MSG_SIZE_BYTES 4
int receive(unsigned int * received_msg){
int fd, msg_size;
int ret_code;
char buffer [5];
char myfifo[50] = "/tmp/myfifo";
fd = open(myfifo, O_RDONLY);
if(fd == -1)
perror("error open RECV to fifo");
ret_code = read(fd, received_msg, MSG_SIZE_BYTES);
close(fd);
if (ret_code == -1){
printf("\nERROR\n");
return 0;
}
return 1;
}
void main(){
mkfifo("/tmp/myfifo", 0666);
unsigned int msg[1];
while(1){
receive(msg);
printf("receive msg from id %d\n", msg[0]);
}
}
I'm compiling the producers and consumer with the following command: gcc -o my_progam my_program.c
To reproduce the problem, you need to open 9 terminals to run each producer and 1 terminal to run the consumer.
Execute the consumer: ./consumer
Execute the producer in all terminals simultaneously, passing to each execution an associated ID passed by command line. Ex: ./producer 0, ./producer 1.
After the producer send messages some times (10 in average), one arbitrary producer will abruptly stop its execution, showing the problem.
The following image depicts the execution:
Terminals ready to execute
The following image depicts the error on producer ID 3
Error on producer 3
Thanks in advance
It looks like the consumer program closes the reading end of the pipe after reading data:
fd = open(myfifo, O_RDONLY);
if(fd == -1){
perror("error open RECV to fifo");
}
ret_code = read(fd, received_msg, MSG_SIZE_BYTES);
close(fd);
All other writers, which are currently trying to write() data (i.e. are blocked in the write()-syscall) now receive a SIGPIPE, which leads to program termination (if no other signal handling is specified).
Your consumer program may not close the filedescriptor while producers are writing. Just read the next datum without closing.
Problem SOLVED:
The problem is that I was opening and closing the FIFO at each message, generating a Broken pipe in some write attempts. Removing the close() and inserting the open() function for BOTH producer and consumer at the begging of the code instead inside the loop solved the problem.
Here is the code of producer with the bug fixed:
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <poll.h>
#define MSG_SIZE_BYTES 4
int my_fd;
void send(unsigned int * msg){
int fd, msg_size;
int r;
char buffer [5];
char myfifo[50] = "/tmp/myfifo"
if(fd == -1){
perror("error open SEND to fifo");
}
r = write(my_fd, msg, MSG_SIZE_BYTES);
if(r == -1){
perror("error writing to fifo");
}
//close(fd);
printf("Message send\n");
}
int main(int argc, char *argv[]){
int cluster_id = atoi(argv[1]);
unsigned int msg[1];
msg[0] = cluster_id;
my_fd = open("/tmp/myfifo", O_WRONLY);
while(1){
printf("Press a key to continue...\n");
getchar();
send(msg);
}
}
And here is the consumer code:
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <poll.h>
#define MSG_SIZE_BYTES 4
int my_fd;
int receive(unsigned int * received_msg){
int fd, msg_size;
int ret_code;
char buffer [5];
char myfifo[50] = "/tmp/myfifo";
if(fd == -1)
perror("error open RECV to fifo");
ret_code = read(my_fd, received_msg, MSG_SIZE_BYTES);
//close(fd);
if (ret_code == -1){
printf("\nERROR\n");
return 0;
}
return 1;
}
void main(){
mkfifo("/tmp/myfifo", 0666);
my_fd = open("/tmp/myfifo", O_RDONLY);
unsigned int msg[1];
while(1){
receive(msg);
printf("receive msg from id %d\n", msg[0]);
}
}
Thank you all!!
I am trying to open a file with fopen, fork the current process and make the child process write something on the file; when the child process exits, the parents process should read the file's content, but it reads "null", even if the file has been correctly written. No errors are reported.
Here is my code:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <sys/wait.h>
int main(int argc, char *argv[]){
FILE * sharedFile;
char *fileContent;
if((sharedFile = fopen("testFile.txt","w+")) == NULL){
fprintf(stderr,"Error while opening the file: %s",strerror(errno));
return 0;
}
pid_t pid = fork();
if(pid == 0){
//Child
fprintf(sharedFile,"%s",argv[1]);
exit(0);
}
else{
//Parent
wait(NULL);
if(fscanf(sharedFile,"%s",fileContent) < 0){
fprintf(stderr,"Error while reading file: %s",strerror(errno));
return 0;
}
fprintf(stdout,"File content: %s",fileContent); //Outputs "File content: (null)"
fclose(sharedFile);
}
}
Oddly, if I open again the file in the parent's code after the fork, the output is correct.
What could be the problem?
fileContent has not been allocated any space. Perhaps do this
char fileContent[101];
...
if (fscanf(sharedFile,"%100s",fileContent) != 1) // Prevent buffer overflows. Should return one when successful.
I'm writing a program that should run indefinitely maintaining the value of a variable. Two other programs could change the value of the variable. I use named pipes to receive and send the variable value to external programs.
Here is my code for the manager of the variable.
manager.c:
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <pthread.h>
char a = 'a';
void *editTask(void *dummy)
{
int fd;
char* editor = "editor";
mkfifo(editor, 0666);
while(1)
{
fd = open(editor, O_RDONLY);
read(fd, &a, 1);
close(fd);
}
}
void *readTask(void *dummy)
{
int fd;
char* reader = "reader";
mkfifo(reader, 0666);
while(1)
{
fd = open(reader, O_WRONLY);
write(fd,&a,1);
close(fd);
}
}
int main()
{
pthread_t editor_thread, reader_thread;
pthread_create(&editor_thread, NULL, editTask, NULL);
pthread_create(&reader_thread, NULL, readTask, NULL);
pthread_join (editor_thread, NULL);
pthread_join (reader_thread, NULL);
return 0;
}
This program uses pthreads to separately get external values for the variable and to communicate the current value of the variable to external programs.
The program that is able to write values to the variable is:
writer.c:
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdio.h>
int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
if(argc != 2)
{
printf("Need an argument!\n");
return 0;
}
int fd;
char * myfifo = "editor";
fd = open(myfifo, O_WRONLY);
write(fd, argv[0], 1);
close(fd);
return 0;
}
The program that could read the current value is:
reader.c:
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
int fd;
char * myfifo = "reader";
fd = open(myfifo, O_RDONLY);
char value = 'z';
read(fd, &value, 1);
printf("The current value of the variable is:%c\n",value);
close(fd);
return 0;
}
I ran these programs in my Ubuntu system as follows:
$ ./manager &
[1] 5226
$ ./writer k
$ ./reader
bash: ./reader: Text file busy
Why doesn't my system allow me to run this program?
Thank you.
You are trying to call both the FIFO and the reader program "reader".
Also, you have no error checking. You have no idea whether those calls to mkfifo and open succeeded or not. Adding this is critical before you attempt to do any troubleshooting.
I am trying to make this work but no luck, basically i need to write to the pipe and then make the pipe return back with the text i sent. I have a server.c and client.c , so i make the server.c run..., open a new terminal and then run the client.. the problem is that the client doesnt do anything when i run it.. I am sure i am missing something.. like closing the pipe. i am not sure.. I would really appreciate some guidance
server.c
#include <stdio.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <ctype.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <string.h>
#define PIPE1 "PIPE1"
#define PIPE5 "PIPE5"
#define MAX_BUF_SIZE 255
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
int rdfd1,rdfd2,rdfd3,rdfd4, wrfd1,wrfd2,wrfd3,wrfd4,ret_val, count, numread1,numread2,numread3,numread4;
char buf1[MAX_BUF_SIZE];
char buf2[MAX_BUF_SIZE];
char buf3[MAX_BUF_SIZE];
char buf4[MAX_BUF_SIZE];
/* Create the first named - pipe */
ret_val = mkfifo(PIPE1, 0666);
if ((ret_val == -1) && (errno != EEXIST)) {
perror("Error creating the named pipe");
return 1;
}
ret_val = mkfifo(PIPE5, 0666);
if ((ret_val == -1) && (errno != EEXIST)) {
perror("Error creating the named pipe");
return 1;
}
/* Open the first named pipe for reading */
rdfd1 = open(PIPE1, O_RDONLY);
/* Open the first named pipe for writing */
wrfd1 = open(PIPE5, O_WRONLY);
/* Read from the pipes */
numread1 = read(rdfd1, buf1, MAX_BUF_SIZE);
buf1[numread1] = '0';
printf("Server : Read From the pipe : %sn", buf1);
/*
* Write the converted content to
* pipe
*/
write(wrfd1, buf1, strlen(buf1));
}
client.c
#include <errno.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <ctype.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#define PIPE1 "PIPE1"
#define PIPE5 "PIPE5"
#define MAX_BUF_SIZE 255
int main(int argc, char *argv[ ]) {
pid_t childpid;
int error;
int i;
int nprocs;
/* check command line for a valid number of processes to generate */
int wrfd1, rdfd1, numread;
char rdbuf[MAX_BUF_SIZE];
if ( (argc != 2) || ((nprocs = atoi (argv[1])) <= 0) ) {
fprintf (stderr, "Usage: %s nprocs\n", argv[0]);
return 1;
}
for (i = 1; i < nprocs; i++) {
/* create the remaining processes */
if ((childpid = fork()) == -1) {
fprintf(stderr, "[%ld]:failed to create child %d: %s\n", (long)getpid(), i, strerror(errno));
return 1;
}
/* Open the first named pipe for writing */
wrfd1 = open(PIPE5, O_WRONLY);
/* Open the second named pipe for reading */
rdfd1 = open(PIPE1, O_RDONLY);
if (childpid)
break;
char string1[100];
if(sprintf(string1, "This is process %d with ID %ld and parent id %ld\n", i, (long)getpid(), (long)getppid())) {
write(wrfd1,string1, strlen(string1));
}
/* Read from the pipe */
numread = read(rdfd1, rdbuf, MAX_BUF_SIZE);
rdbuf[numread] = '0';
printf("Full Duplex Client : Read From the Pipe : %sn", rdbuf);
}
return 0;
}
It seems like both server and client read from PIPE1 and write to PIPE5. Shouldn't one of them write to PIPE1 so that the other can read it from the other end?
Also, if you're testing with ./client 1, your for (i = 1; i < nprocs; i++) loop will never execute.
One last thing, see this question. I'm not entirely sure it applies to your code, but it's worth keeping in mind.
Shouldn't this line be '\0' ?
buf1[numread1] = '0';