CS 307 Programming Examples, Spring 2000

1. From class on 3/27/00. forktest.c (simple creation of a child), exectest.c (elementary illustration of "exec"), and getanumber.c (needed by exectest.c).
2. From class on 3/29/00. unsharedmem.c (a demonstration that global variables are not shared after a fork) and sharedmem.c (using shared memory).
3. From class on 4/3/00. race.c (a demonstration of a failed lock-variable strategy for avoiding race conditions), and norace.c (an example of how to use a binary semaphore to avoid the problem in race.c).