CS 322 Fall 2013
Project 1
Process Tree
Due Monday, September 30th at 10:00 P.M.

Please submit your code by the deadline on royal
		/Shared/cs322/submit/proj1
Include your *.c files in a directory named with your two first names and include a readme with

Context

On Linux systems the command pstree displays running processes as a tree. An example is below
ecdfourq@bivector:~$ pstree -aG
init
  +-NetworkManager
  +-acpid -c /etc/acpi/events -s /var/run/acpid.socket
  +-apache2 -k start
  |   +-apache2 -k start
  |   +-apache2 -k start
  |   +-apache2 -k start
  |   +-apache2 -k start
  |   +-apache2 -k start
  +-atd
  +-automount
  |   +-2*[{automount}]
  +-avahi-daemon
  |   +-avahi-daemon
  +-console-kit-dae --no-daemon
  |   +-63*[{console-kit-da}]
  +-cron
  +-cupsd -C /etc/cups/cupsd.conf
  +-dbus-daemon --system --fork
  +-exim4 -bd -q30m
  +-getty -8 38400 tty4
  +-getty -8 38400 tty5
  +-getty -8 38400 tty2
  +-getty -8 38400 tty3
  +-getty -8 38400 tty6
  +-getty -8 38400 tty1
  +-modem-manager
  +-mysqld
  |   +-13*[{mysqld}]
  +-portmap
  +-rpc.statd -L
  +-rsyslogd -c4
  |   +-2*[{rsyslogd}]
  +-sshd -D
  |   +-sshd
  |   |   +-sshd
  |   |       +-ksh
  |   +-sshd
  |       +-sshd
  |           +-ksh
  |               +-pstree -aG
  +-udevd --daemon
  |   +-udevd --daemon
  |   +-udevd --daemon
  +-upstart-udev-br --daemon
  +-winbindd
  |   +-winbindd
  +-wpa_supplicant -u -s
  +-ypbind -no-dbus
  |   +-2*[{ypbind}]
  +-zmdc.pl -wT /usr/bin/zmdc.pl startup
      +-zmaudit.pl -wT /usr/bin/zmaudit.pl -c
      +-zmfilter.pl -wT /usr/bin/zmfilter.pl
      +-zmwatch.pl -wT /usr/bin/zmwatch.pl
In this project you will write a C program that creates a binary tree of Unix processes and prints the binary tree as it is created.
The processes are only fork() calls, not followed by a call to functions of the exce() family.

Description

Write a program processtree.c that takes a single command-line parameter specifiying the height of the binary process tree. Each process should be assigned a traversal number, which corresponds to its position in a level-order traversal of the tree.

Given a height of 3, the tree can be thought of as this binary tree, where the parent-child links are not explicitly stored by your program but are part of the Unix process hierarchy. While the graphical representation would look like this:

your program's processes should print out the information about the tree, as follows:

> ./processtree 3
 [1] pid 81142, ppid 48569
 [1] pid 81142 created left child with pid 81143
 [1] pid 81142 created right child with pid 81144
  [2] pid 81143, ppid 81142
  [3] pid 81144, ppid 81142
  [2] pid 81143 created left child with pid 81145
  [3] pid 81144 created left child with pid 81146
  [3] pid 81144 created right child with pid 81147
   [4] pid 81145, ppid 81143
  [2] pid 81143 created right child with pid 81148
   [6] pid 81146, ppid 81144
   [7] pid 81147, ppid 81144
   [5] pid 81148, ppid 81143
  [3] right child 81147 of 81144 exited with status 7
  [3] left child 81146 of 81144 exited with status 6
  [2] right child 81148 of 81143 exited with status 5
  [2] left child 81145 of 81143 exited with status 4
 [1] right child 81144 of 81142 exited with status 3
 [1] left child 81143 of 81142 exited with status 2
To obtain this result, your program's processes should produce output in the following format.
  1. When a process is created, it should print
  2. After a process spawns a child process, it prints its own (not the new child's) traversal number, its own pid, and the pid of the newly-spawned child along with an indication of whether this child forms its "left" or "right" subtree.
  3. When a child exits (using exit(3)), it prints its traversal number as its exit status. This value is obtained by the parent when it calls waitpid(2) and printed along with the parent's traversal number, whether the terminated child is a left or right subtree, the parent's pid, the terminated child's pid and the exit status, which should be the child's traversal number.
Two additional requirements are that each line of output

Important Notes

Grading

This project is graded out of 20 points.

Correct number of levels created
4
Correct total number of processes created
2
Correct usage of fork system call including error checks
4
Correct usage of waitpid system call
2
Correct printing of child exit status in parent
1
Sleep between successive levels
1
Traversal order labels
3
Indentation based on tree level
3