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Fork Count
Every process, pipe and possible output of a fork/wait/pipe C snippet, deadlocks included.
What it does
A practice tool for one of the trickiest topics in an operating systems course: what a C program prints when it creates child processes. Paste a short program using fork, wait, printf and pipes and it lists every possible output, or tells you whether a given output is possible and, if not, which line rules it out. A step-by-step process tree shows zombie and orphan processes, pipe deadlocks are explained, 37 examples are built in, and instructors can export exam questions with checked answers.
Good to know
It handles only a small part of C, with no signals, threads, files or helper functions, and one writer and one reader per pipe.
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