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/* textforkexecwait.c                                                 */
/* Author: Bob Dondero                                                */
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#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/wait.h>

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/* Demonstrate the common pattern of using the system-level fork(),
   execvp(), and wait() functions. Return 0.
   As usual, argc is the command-line argument count, and argv
   contains the command-line arguments. */

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
   enum {SLEEP_SECONDS = 3};
   
   pid_t iPid;
   int iRet;

   for (;;)
   {
      iRet = fflush(stdin);
      if (iRet == EOF) {perror(argv[0]); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); }
      iRet = fflush(stdout);
      if (iRet == EOF) {perror(argv[0]); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); }
      
      iPid = fork();
      if (iPid == -1) {perror(argv[0]); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); }

      if (iPid == 0)
      {
         /* This code is executed by the child process only. */
         char *apcArgv[2];

         apcArgv[0] = "date";
         apcArgv[1] = NULL;

         execvp("date", apcArgv);
         perror(argv[0]);
         exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
      }

      /* This code is executed by the parent process only. */

      /* Wait for the child process to exit. */
      iPid = wait(NULL);
      if (iPid == -1) {perror(argv[0]); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); }

      /* Pause for SLEEP_SECONDS seconds. */
      sleep(SLEEP_SECONDS);
   }

   /* Should not reach this point. */
}

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/* Sample execution:

$ gcc217 testforkexecwait.c -o testforkexecwait

$ ./testforkexecwait
Tue Apr 24 19:14:32 EDT 2018
Tue Apr 24 19:14:35 EDT 2018
Tue Apr 24 19:14:38 EDT 2018
Tue Apr 24 19:14:41 EDT 2018
Tue Apr 24 19:14:44 EDT 2018
Tue Apr 24 19:14:47 EDT 2018
Tue Apr 24 19:14:50 EDT 2018
Tue Apr 24 19:14:53 EDT 2018
Tue Apr 24 19:14:56 EDT 2018
^C

*/