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Experiment 8

The document discusses three ways to establish interprocess communication in C using named pipes, message passing, and message queues. It includes code snippets to create processes and send/receive messages between them using these IPC techniques.

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Experiment 8

The document discusses three ways to establish interprocess communication in C using named pipes, message passing, and message queues. It includes code snippets to create processes and send/receive messages between them using these IPC techniques.

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Experiment 8

Q1Establish Interprocess communication (IPC) using named pipe.


#include <sys/types.h>

#include <sys/stat.h>

#include <stdlib.h>

#include <unistd.h>

#include <fcntl.h>

#include <stdio.h>

int main(){

int pid, fd1, fd2;

char buffer[20];

mkfifo("my_Pipe", 0666);

pid=fork();

if(pid > 0){

//Parent Section

fd1=open("my_Pipe", O_WRONLY);

write(fd1, "Hello Child Process\n",20);

if(pid==0){

//Child section

fd2=open("my_Pipe", O_RDONLY);

read(fd2, buffer, 20);

printf("%s", buffer);

}
return 0;

Output:

Code:
Q2.Establish Interprocess communication (IPC) using message passing
technique.
Code:

#include <stdio.h>

#include <stdlib.h>

#include <string.h>

#include <sys/ipc.h>

#include <sys/msg.h>

#include <unistd.h>
struct message {

long msg_type;

char msg_text[100];

};

int main() {

key_t key;

int msgid;

struct message msg;

key = ftok("/tmp", 'a');

// Create a message queue

msgid = msgget(key, 0666 | IPC_CREAT);

if (msgid == -1) {

perror("msgget");

exit(EXIT_FAILURE);

// Create a child process

pid_t child_pid = fork();

if (child_pid == -1) {

perror("fork");

exit(EXIT_FAILURE);

if (child_pid == 0) {

// Child process

printf("Child process is waiting for a message...\n");


msgrcv(msgid, &msg, sizeof(msg), 1, 0);

printf("Child received: %s", msg.msg_text);

} else {

// Parent process

printf("Parent process is sending a message...\n");

msg.msg_type = 1;

strcpy(msg.msg_text, "Hello from the parent!");

msgsnd(msgid, &msg, sizeof(msg), 0);

msgctl(msgid, IPC_RMID, NULL);

return 0;

Output:
Q3.Establish Interprocess communication (IPC) Message queue Technique.
Code

#include <stdio.h>

#include <stdlib.h>

#include <string.h>

#include <sys/types.h>

#include <sys/ipc.h>

#include <sys/msg.h>

#include <unistd.h>

struct message {

long msg_type;

char msg_text[100];

};

int main() {

key_t key;

int msgid;

struct message msg;

key = ftok("/tmp", 'a');

msgid = msgget(key, 0666 | IPC_CREAT);

strcpy(msg.msg_text, "Hello from the sender!");

msg.msg_type = 1;

if (msgsnd(msgid, &msg, sizeof(msg.msg_text), 0) == -1) {

perror("msgsnd");

exit(EXIT_FAILURE);

}
printf("Message sent: %s\n", msg.msg_text);

if (msgrcv(msgid, &msg, sizeof(msg.msg_text), 1, 0) == -1) {

perror("msgrcv");

exit(EXIT_FAILURE);

printf("Message received: %s\n", msg.msg_text);

if (msgctl(msgid, IPC_RMID, NULL) == -1) {

perror("msgctl");

exit(EXIT_FAILURE);

return 0;

Output:

Code:
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MEDHANSH ALOK ASHISH SIR
VARSHA

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