the wrong part of the forum but basically im working on a project and getting no where what so ever and i was wondering if i could get your help. Basically i have to create two scripts do:
The parent script which is going to:
o spawn several child processes.
o keep track of the progress of the child processes.
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I work on Linux for ARM processor for cable modem. There is a tool that I have written (as the job demands) that sends/storms customized UDP packets using raw sockets. I form the packet from scratch so that we have the flexibility to play with different options. This tool is mainly for stress testing routers.
The details are here.
I actually have multiple interfaces created. Each interface will obtain IP addresses using DHCP. This is done in order to make the modem behave as virtual customer premises equipment (vcpe).
When the system comes up, I start those processes that are asked to. Every process that I start will continuously send packets. So process 0 will send packets using interface 0 and so on. Each of these processes that send packets would allow configuration (change in UDP parameters and other options at run time). Thats the reason I decide to have separate processes.
I start these processes using fork and excec from the provisioning processes of the modem.
The problem now is that each process takes up a lot of memory. Starting just 3 such processes, causes the system to crash and reboot.
I have tried the following:- 1-I have always assumed that pushing more code to the Shared Libraries will help. So when I tried moving many functions into shared library and keeping minimum code in the processes, it made no difference to my surprise.
2-I also removed all arrays and made them use the heap. However it made no difference. This maybe because the processes runs continuously and it makes no difference if it is stack or heap?
3-I suspect the process from I where I call the fork is huge and that is the reason for the processes that I make result being huge. I am not sure how else I could go about. say process A is huge -> I start process B by forking and excec. B inherits A's memory area. So now I do this -> A starts C which inturn starts B will also not help as C still inherits A?. I used vfork as an alternative which did not help either. I do wonder why.
reduce the memory used by each independent child processes.
If a process forks its child and communicate with the child using pipe, do closing the write end of the pipe and terminating the writing process have the same effect?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI'm in the process of writing a program that is a server- it will accept connections and stuff, and spawn a child process for each. However, i've run into a small problem. I do NOT want to bother with keeping track of the processes unless i need to. So, i set SA_NOCLDWAIT (#ifdef) on a SIG_IGN to the SIGCHLD handler through sigaction interface. The standard says that it the kernel will then keep track of reaping zombie processes for me (a HUGE plus). However, upon receiving a SIGINT signal, i want to stop the server from accepting new connections (done), and then wait for there to be no new connections. I was thinking of just putting a loop like so:
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while((wait(NULL) != (pid_t)-1) && errno != ECHILD);
However, I'm not *sure* that this will work, especially with SIGCHLD still ignored. So how can i tell if there are still child processes? I can't find any call like int getnumchld(pid_t proc); (i wish). Plus it would be inefficient to spin on that function anyway. OTOH, i would rather *NOT* have to do the same thing in a loop with a system("ps |...>file"); read(file); etc. either. Is there a way i can portably implement this feature (I was hoping i could run it on linux and the major BSDs, at least).
TO SUM IT UP:
How can i tell if a process has no child processes if i've SIG_IGN'd SA_NOCLDWAIT'd the SIGCHLD? Is there a _reasonably_ portable way to do so? I *don't* want to manually wait for EVERY process. Maybe only those still active at the time of SIGTERM, but that requires keeping track of the number of connections and whether those have terminated...
EDIT: Does anyone know if the above code *would* work, even with SIGCHLD ignored and the kernel cleaning up zombies *for* me? I checked the manpage and it doesn't say much.
EDIT1: Note that all of the processes are in the same process group and session. SO i can find them through this as well. Perhaps even setting the uid/gid and finding all processes run by that group?
EDIT2: i have an idea if the above isn't feasible. If there is no "elegant" way to do it, i could reduce the complexity by sending a SIGUSR1 to the whole process group. Each process would then set a flag telling it to send a SIGUSR1 in reply and send a SIGUSR2 when it is done executing. Then i could keep a count of signals. Maybe that would be *easier*. Or perhaps a count of all child processes and just a termination signal to decrement the counter.
I'm looking for a way in Perl to be able to take a list of servers, ssh multiple commands to it and store the results. If I do this process serially, sometimes one server will hang the whole script and if it doesn't, it still takes hours to complete.
I'm thinking what I need to do is make a parent loop that calls out a separate process that passes the server name to the child sub process and then executes all the commands I have defined in its own process. If one server 'hangs', at least that won't stop the script from doing all the other servers in the list.
I'm guessing using the fork() command would serve me best, however, all the online descriptions I have found have been vague at best.
I have written a simple script which has to find required patterns from a bunch of files ( where each file is around 2 GB each,which contain the output of seq 1 10000000000000) on an 8 core machine.I am current forking 6 child processes which run simultaneously on 6 cores of the processor & have to search for the required pattern in 6 different files & inform the parent process when a pattern is found using a PIPE.
The problem is,when a child process is done reading a text file looking for a pattern,it is becoming a zombie process.It exits cleanly when i put a $SIG{CHLD} = "IGNORE"; in the script.Can any one tell me whats going on & how do i improve the communication between child and parent processes?
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#!/bin/perl
use strict;
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As an assignment i was doing a program to create two process using fork and pass messages between them using message queue.Did it worked well until my friend tried to copy it using scp.suddenly all hell broke loose as processes without ran syncronisation ie. in tech terms the process just wont wait wen a message queue is empty.it keeps on executing randomly.but after a reboot .. everything worked fine. until again i tried to do scp on my system on purpose. and again the program just went mad.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have a doubt about signals in C programming. I have done this little program to explain it. It creates a child process with fork and, when the child ends, receives the SIGCHLD signal and wait for its termination.Ok, quite easy, BUT when I execute this code the SIGCHLD signal is received twice, first as an error (returns -1) and the second one to finish the child process.I don't understand the meaning of the first received signal. Why is it generated? Is the code wrong? (if you add the SIGINT and press Ctrl+C during the execution it also receives two signals instead of one)
Code: #include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <string.h>
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I want to check all the child processes attached to a specific process. Say for a example; my process is a java process. Then I wanna know what are the processes attached to that java process. At the moment I use the command # ps aux|grep java; this gives the details about the currently running java process. So I can kill the whole java process using #kill -9 {pid} ...but there are sub processes attached (I guess child processes) to java process. I wanna view all of them & kill whatever the process I like not the whole thing. I'm using Red hat 5 enterprise edition. and currently a weblogic application server is running on that.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI work on Linux for ARM processor for cable modem. There is a tool that I have written (as the job demands) that sends/storms customized UDP packets using raw sockets. I form the packet from scratch so that we have the flexibility to play with different options. This tool is mainly for stress testing routers.I actually have multiple interfaces created. Each interface will obtain IP addresses using DHCP. This is done in order to make the modem behave as virtual customer premises equipment (vcpe).
When the system comes up, I start those processes that are asked to. Every process that I start will continuously send packets. So process 0 will send packets using interface 0 and so on. Each of these processes that send packets would allow configuration (change in UDP parameters and other options at run time). Thats the reason I decide to have separate processes. I start these processes using fork and excec from the provisioning processes of the modem. The problem now is that each process takes up a lot of memory. Starting just 3 such processes, causes the system to crash and reboot.
I have tried the following:-
1-I have always assumed that pushing more code to the Shared Libraries will. when I tried moving many functions into shared library and keeping minimum code in the processes, it made no difference to my surprise.
2-I also removed all arrays and made them use the heap. However it made no difference. This maybe because the processes runs continuously and it makes no difference if it is stack or heap?
3-I suspect the process from I where I call the fork is huge and that is the reason for the processes that I make result being huge. I am not sure how else I could go about. say process A is huge -> I start process B by forking and excec. B inherits A's memory area. So now I do this -> A starts C which inturn starts B will also not help as C still inherits A?. I used vfork as an alternative which did not help either. I do wonder why.
I have a situation where I have several screen (/usr/bin/screen) sessions running. 2 of the screen sessions (ps1 and ps2) run a script that launched SipP with specific parameters. 1 script starts SipP and has it make 50 calls where the other makes only 20 calls. However The script is configured where we can change how many calls it makes if needed.
So the problem is, due to issues with SipP, we must restart everything every 12 hours (at maximum). So I am trying to work out scripts to stop the SipP processes cleanly. In order to do so I need to figure out which SipP process is spawned by which screen. i.e. which sipp was started by screen session ps1, and which one was started by screen session ps2.
Now I can do ps -ef | grep <number of calls configured> to find out but then I would have to change my stop script every time we reconfigure how many calls are made, and have a separate stop script for each screen session. I would much rather be able to send the screen name as a parameter to the stop script and have it work no matter how many calls SipP is configured to make.Also your standard kill -1 <PID> does not shutdown SipP cleanly. So working out those details is a bit more tricky. Anyone know how I can determine what processes are spawned from a specific screen session?
Im wondering if there is a simple way to protect environment variables to be changed by child processes?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am facing an issue where the process starts hanging. When I closely look at the logs I come to know that some of the child processes that are forked by the parent process are not finished.
1) Is it possible that the child processes that are not finished occupy the socket memory of the parent process and ultimately a point is reached where no socket memory is available to fork new child processes.
2) What is the standard limit of socket memory in linux?
3) What is the fate of such child processes (as I have mentioned above)?
4) How to debug such cases so that the exact problematic area is identified?
well i have just started with shell scripting...how to find all child processes of a parent process given to script as argument.
View 10 Replies View RelatedConsider the following code:
Code:
int main()
{
int i=0;
pid_t pid;
for(i=0;i<2;i++)
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I get the following output:
Parent: chid_pid=4356 i=0 parent's pid=4355
This is child 4356 i=0
This is child 4357 i=1
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I can observe instead of two children(as I expect) processes there are three. This is because child process 4356 creates its own child. Why all the messages of the type "This is child X i=Y" are concentrated one under another? How exactly fork works? Is affected by the fact that I have a dual-core processor?
Terminal will not open
Error message: There was an error creating the child process for this terminal
Got this after doing a update to testing repo; to try to fix another issue with my media player sound not working.
Solved
The_Source_HIM
Just add yourself to 'tty' group and relogin
I get the error
Code:
there was an error creating the child process of this terminal
When I run this code:
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gnome-terminal --window-with-profile=Scripts
I work with social sciences and I really need to use "R". R is a program used for statistics and it has a module called R-commander, which let things easier to deal and comes with several options as opening SPSS files (another statistical package commonly used by Windows users) and other things. THe problem is, as Rcmdr is a module for R, when I run it, it opens a terminal window and then he runs the module, which opens a friendly gui.
It worked okay and clean in Ubuntu 9.10, but for LTS 10.4 I keep getting an error, no matter I reinstall the modules or the entire program. I even installed Ubuntu again without upgrading it from karmic Koala. But there is the same error msg.
The error message says: "Error while creating a child process for this terminal". The strange part is there is no other msgs in the terminal or errorlogs. I really need to use this software for work.
I am trying to create a launcher in Fedora 13 which will run a simple script named proj4a. I run this script from the command line as follows: $ /home/enowak/proj4a >/home/enowak/proj4a_out where proj4a is an executable file in my home directory and the output goes into a file, proj4a_out, in my home directory. Everything works fine.
I created a launcher called Proj4a and in the command field I entered the following: '/home/enowak/proj4a >/home/enowak/proj4a_out' When I click on the launcher it comes back with the following: There was an error launching the application. Details: Failed to execute child process "/home/enowak/proj4a >/home/enowak/proj4a_out" (No such file or directory) I can't for the life of me figure out what is wrong here. Does anybody see what I'm missing?
I am troubleshooting something and I got this problem.
If I do "pstree -p"
It shows,
Code:
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However, it does NOT show up in "ps -elf"
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ps -elf | grep soffi
0 S whho 7734 1 0 80 0 - 36435 - 11:14 pts/2 00:00:03 /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice.bin -splash-pipe=5
0 S whho 7833 7759 0 80 0 - 751 - 11:21 pts/3 00:00:00 grep soffi
I was wondering if 7735, 7736, 7737, 7743 were really processes. Then I checked /proc, I could cd to /proc/7735, /proc/7736, etc, but I could not ls them out. I looked at the man page of "pstree", it says,
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Child threads of a process are found under the parent process and are shown with the process name in curly braces, e.g.
icecast2---13*[{icecast2}]
So, what does all this mean? Does it mean that 7735, 7736, 7737, 7743 are just threads but not processes? If so, why could I cd to /proc/<id> but not see them in "ps -elf".
Now,I created one parent and two children. I must create some value as random in child1 and child1 has to send these values to child2.Child2 must read them.. now,I cant create some random values and i can send them.But child2 doesnt work. I have two functions. One them is writing, another one is reading. Child2 uses reading function,but it doesnt work (child2 cant call it, because writing function in endless loop) What i must do? I used wait,usleep... No way.. I attached my file and also there is code..
PHP Code: #include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <signal.h>
#include <stdarg.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
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I have a root process (on linux) that forks a child and the child process then drops privileges by doing a setuid() to a normal user. After the child setuid()'s, it is of course impossible for it to gain root again by itself. But since the main process is still running as root, i was wondering if there was a simple/smart way of getting the root-master-process to elevate the child back to root (or maybe just to another non-privi uid). Is there some way to do a setuid() on another pid? or maybe something can be done through /proc/<pid>/? Killing the child is not an option (because its what it does today and im trying to find a smarter way). (The program is apache2's mpm-itk worker and the "child" is the actual apache2 process serving a page.)
View 11 Replies View RelatedI am fairly new to c++. There must be a better way to do the following?:- Say I have a base class, Pet. I have several child classes that extend from this, like Dog, Cat, Fish etc.
I have the following function, that returns a pointer to a new Pet:-
Code: Pet* addPetToVet()
{ //Do some stuff
return new Pet();
} This will return a pointer an instance of a pet object.
Now, if I want to interpret this pet as a dog or cat I have to do this:-
Code: Dog* dogA = static_cast<Dog*>(addPetToVet());
Cat* catA = static_cast<Cat*>(addPetToVet()); Is there a way around this? Casting seems lame. I cant write a function for each type of pet.
Im using gdb for debugging my application.. I was able to debug child process(when fork comes) .. and in child process we have an exec call to .... So the problem is, when the control come to exec , the exec process is executing at a time... I could not debug the exec. process... error is stack curruption due to same frame So, is there any way to debug the exec process
View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm writing a sort of toy shell using fork() and execv(). It runs smoothly enough untill the user enters an invalid command at which point the program hangs, so I need a way to check if the program loaded using execv returned correclty or not in the parent process and kill it if it didntI tried writing stderr to a text file to see if something whent wrong but doesnt really work out. Try running ./digenv GDM -i -Q for instance. (-Q is an invalid option for grep which the program runs at a certain point).Heres the code:
Code:
//digenv
//Carl Reg�rdh 2011-03-24
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I'm trying to write a shell script that do ftp and download file periodically, this script should be called by a daemon running in the background.
the shell script "script.sh" is as follows:
Code:
yafc ftp://test:test@192.168.1.225:21 < commands
and the "commands" files is
Code:
d Root/md5* /
quit
if I run script.sh it will work just fine. But when the daemon software calls the "script.sh", the script will send ftp login request to the ftp server, but will not even answer the username or anything.
I believe it is something about child process redirection, but I don't know how to deal with it.
This problem is not only with yafc, it is the same with any ftp client or any application like telnet and so.
what I am trying to do is to pass an argument to the standard input stream of a child process. I mean I create two programs .. first one invokes the other. second one contains something like
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scanf("%d", &n);
now I want my first program to be able to pass a value to the second one so that it gets stored in n.
i need C code to get child pids from its parent pid in linux and in kernel mode, is there anything like getpid() or getppid() which works in kernel mode?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am writing a perl script where forking a child and the child is waiting for some response from C++ exe. Here is the code snippet:
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my $retPid = fork;
if ($retPid) {
# I am parent ...
# Install signal handler
$SIG{CHLD} = &REAPER; ...
# sleep for a week (6 hours at a time)
for ($cnt = 0; $cnt < 28 ; $cnt++) {
select(undef, undef, undef, 21600);
last if ( ! -e "/proc/$retPid" ); } ...
} else {
# I am child
($iid, $rc, %data) = $cpp_exe->getResponse(604800); # 1 week timeout ... }
If the cpp_exe takes very long time (around 30 hours) to respond then the perl script (both parent and child) is dieing. The SIG{CHLD} handler defined in parent is not getting called. It seems parent is dieing first then child is dieing (or may be both dieing at the same time). Why the script is dieing?
i got basic knowledge about creating a single child from a parent using fork(). But when it comes into creating multiple children, i am simply stuck. I am trying to create two processes from a parent and it would wait for both two processes to finish. my attempt is as below
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