[algogeeks] Re: question on fork()

2011-08-24 Thread DK
@Ankuj: Sorry. I read the getch() as a call to green(). Please ignore the 20 green(). It should be 10 green() instead. -- DK http://twitter.com/divyekapoor http://www.divye.in http://gplus.to/divyekapoor -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Algorithm

Re: [algogeeks] Re: question on fork()

2011-08-24 Thread shashi kant
6 red 10 greens On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 9:25 AM, Ankuj Gupta wrote: > how can be there 20 greens ? > > On Aug 24, 12:12 am, DK wrote: > > The standard library is neither multithread safe nor multiprocess safe. > > If you want the correct answer, use shared memory and maintain a shared > > cou

[algogeeks] Re: question on fork()

2011-08-23 Thread Ankuj Gupta
how can be there 20 greens ? On Aug 24, 12:12 am, DK wrote: > The standard library is neither multithread safe nor multiprocess safe. > If you want the correct answer, use shared memory and maintain a shared > counter. Alternatively, as a quick hack, insert a fflush(stdout) after the > printf sta

[algogeeks] Re: question on fork()

2011-08-23 Thread DK
The standard library is neither multithread safe nor multiprocess safe. If you want the correct answer, use shared memory and maintain a shared counter. Alternatively, as a quick hack, insert a fflush(stdout) after the printf statements. Answer: red() - 6 green() - 20 -- DK http://twitter.

Re: [algogeeks] Re: question on fork()

2011-08-23 Thread Prem Krishna Chettri
I Can See 10 Green and 10 Red Process.. Can Someone Compile to verify this... Prem On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 1:24 AM, gmagog...@gmail.com wrote: > Infinite times > Yanan Cao > > > > On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 2:43 PM, Don wrote: > >> // DO NOT RUN THIS! By inspection, how many times will it print "H

Re: [algogeeks] Re: question on fork()

2011-08-22 Thread gmagog...@gmail.com
Infinite times Yanan Cao On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 2:43 PM, Don wrote: > // DO NOT RUN THIS! By inspection, how many times will it print "Hello > world"? > // If you find out by running it, that is cheating. Don't do it! > int main() > { > int i=0, j=0; > for(i = 0; i*j < 20; ++i) > { >if

Re: [algogeeks] Re: question on fork()

2011-08-22 Thread gmagog...@gmail.com
I am getting 6 red and 8 green as expected using the original code Yanan Cao On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Yasir wrote: > Surprisingly, if I comment the last if condition ( which is AFTER red() > call ), it is printing red only 6 times as expected.. > http://ideone.com/XMHzC > > main() > {

[algogeeks] Re: question on fork()

2011-08-22 Thread Don
// DO NOT RUN THIS! By inspection, how many times will it print "Hello world"? // If you find out by running it, that is cheating. Don't do it! int main() { int i=0, j=0; for(i = 0; i*j < 20; ++i) { if (fork() > 0) ++j; else i = j = 0; printf("Hello world\n"); } return 0; }

[algogeeks] Re: question on fork()

2011-08-22 Thread Yasir
Surprisingly, if I comment the last if condition ( which is AFTER red() call ), it is printing red only 6 times as expected.. http://ideone.com/XMHzC main() { fork(); int color=fork(); if(color==0) fork(); red(); //if(color==0) // fork

[algogeeks] Re: question on fork()

2011-08-22 Thread Ankuj Gupta
I am getting 6 calls to red and 8 calls to green when i built parent child tree but when i ran this code http://ideone.com/UBaBB I got 10 calls to red and 10 calls to green. Can some explain this ? On Aug 22, 9:31 pm, ghsjgl k wrote: > i saw this question in one of DREAM companies > > i dont kn