COMP2560- Assignment 4 Solved

Rewrite your solution to Assignment 2 with changed requirements on parallel execution. 

 

Requirement from previous assignment:

 

•       The parent process waits for the child process to terminate before creating the next.

 

Replacement:

 

•       The parent process will not wait for the child process to terminate before creating the next process.

•       The processes will do the calculation in parallel. Add some sleep time to simulate larger calculation.

•       The processes will write the data into the image file sequentially. This is coordinated by the parent using signals.

•       You can only use signal for inter-process communication.

 

 

Marking Scheme:

 

            0.5 logically clear

            0.5 follow all instructions and correctly use signals

            0.5 successfully compile

            0.5 pass all tests