OperatingSystems

Fall 2017 COMP 530: Operating Systems with Professor Kevin Jeffay

Assignment 1

Write a C program on linux that reads in a string of characters from standard input, and write them as 80 character lines to standard output.

• Every newline must be replaced by a space.
• Every double asterisk '**' replaced by a carrot '^'.

Assignment 2

Write a C program that imitates a simple linux shell (i.e. a command interpreter) that uses fork() and execvp().

• Takes in command prompts less than 100 characters long
• Execvp() limited to take in 10 arguments
• The parent process waits for the child to finish executing
• The child process parses the command and execs the the filename and remaining arguments