For my Operating Systems class I have an assignment due that is built onto a previous assignment. Unfortunately my previous project doesn't work correctly in addition to me not knowing where I need to start for the next project. The code which I have below is suppose to mimic a simple UNIX/Linux shell with some additional commands that cannot be performed with execvp: background processing via the ampersand operator, the 'jobs' shell command: list the pids of all living child processes (i.e. not ones that have terminated), "reaping" of "zombie" processes, and the 'cd' shell command: change the shell's working directory.
I believe, everything but the "jobs" command, and "cd" command work, but I'm not sure why these two don't.
The next assignment is to add some I/O redirection in the form of "mysh$ cmd arg1 arg2 argN > file.out" which I don't know where to even really begin...
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <strings.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <wait.h>
#include <signal.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
int main(int argc, char **argv) {
char bBuffer[BUFSIZ], *pArgs[10], *aPtr = NULL, *sPtr;
int jobs[100];
int jobList = 0;
int background;
ssize_t rBytes;
int aCount;
pid_t pid;
int status;
while(!feof(stdin)) {
pid = waitpid(-1, &status, WNOHANG);
if (pid > 0)
printf("waitpid reaped child pid %d\n", pid);
write(1, "\e[1;31mmyBash \e[1;32m# \e[0m", 27);
rBytes = read(0, bBuffer, BUFSIZ-1);
if(rBytes == -1) {
perror("read");
exit(1);
}
bBuffer[rBytes-1] = '\0';
if(!strcasecmp(bBuffer, "exit")){
exit(0);
}
sPtr = bBuffer;
aCount = 0;
do {
aPtr = strsep(&sPtr, " ");
pArgs[aCount++] = aPtr;
} while(aPtr);
background = (strcmp(pArgs[aCount-2], "&") == 0);
if (background)
pArgs[aCount-2] = NULL;
if (strlen(pArgs[0]) > 1) {
pid = fork();
if (pid == -1) {
perror("fork");
exit(1);
} else if (pid == 0) {
jobs[jobList] = pid;
jobList++;
if(!strcasecmp(pArgs[0], "jobs")){
for(int i; i<jobList; i++) {
if(kill(jobs[i],0)==0){
printf(jobs[i]);
}
printf("these are jobs\n");
exit(1);
}
if(!strcasecmp(pArgs[0], "cd")){
int ret;
if (!pArgs[1])
strcpy(bBuffer, "pwd");
ret = chdir(pArgs[1]);
strcpy(bBuffer, "pwd");
exit(1);
}
fclose(stdin);
fopen("/dev/null", "r");
execvp(pArgs[0], pArgs);
exit(1);
} else if (!background) {
pid = waitpid(pid, &status, 0);
if (pid > 0)
printf("waitpid reaped child pid %d\n", pid);
}
}
}
return 0;
}