Okay so I am trying to teach myself on how to do signalling, and I came across a hiccup and I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. What is going on right now is: it is executing the parent then goes to child and then back to parent.. It's not doing what I want it to do which is execute the parent (which the user defines the amount of time it runs) then kills it then go to child and run itself at the same amount of time.
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <signal.h>
#include <sys/types.h> // for wait
#include <sys/wait.h> // for wait
void action(int);
void action(int dummy){
sleep(1);
printf("Switching\n");
}
int main(int argc, char *argv[]){
pid_t pid;
int m = atoi(argv[1]), i = 0, x = 0;
if((pid=fork())>0){//parent
sleep(1);
while(i < m){
printf("hello %d\n", x);
x++;
kill(pid, SIGUSR1);
signal(SIGUSR1, action);
pause();
i++;
}
}
else
while(i < m){//child
//waitpid(getppid(), &status, 0); // wait for parent
signal(SIGUSR1, action);
pause();
printf("hi%d\n", x);
x++;
kill(getppid(), SIGUSR1);
i++;
}
}
What I want it to do is:
hello 0
hello 1
hello 2
hello 3
hello 4
Switching
hi 0
hi 1
hi 2
hi 3
hi 4
Any help is much appreciated!