Programming language:C

Memory-Mapped Files

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mmap-write.c

/* Mapped-memory example - Writer program */ #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include "mmap.h"

/* return a uniformly generated random number in the range [low,high] */ int random_range (unsigned const low, unsigned const high) { unsigned const range = high - low + 1; return low + (int) (((double) range) * rand () / (RAND_MAX + 1.0)); }

/* Create and write to a shared file for communication with another process. * * argv[1] = file name * * Note: Error processing is omitted */ int main (int argc, char* const argv[]) { int fd; void* file_memory;

/* seed the random number generator */ srand (time (NULL));

/* open or create a file to hold an unsigned integer */ fd = open (argv[1], O_RDWR | O_CREAT, S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR);

/* write FILESIZE spaces */ for (int i=0; i

/* create the memory-mapping 1st param=start addr of mapping into memory, NULL means chosen by OS 2nd param=length of map (bytes) 3rd param=protection 4th param=options, MAP_SHARED used for interprocess communications 5th param=file descriptor of mapped file 6th param=offset from start of file where mapping starts */ file_memory = mmap (NULL, FILESIZE, PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, fd, 0); close (fd);

/* write a random integer to memory-mapped area */ sprintf((char*) file_memory, "%d", random_range (-100, 100));

/* release the memory */ munmap (file_memory, FILESIZE); }

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mmap-read.c

/* Mapped-memory example - Reader program */

#include #include #include #include #include #include #include "mmap.h"

int main (int argc, char* const argv[]) { int fd; void* file_memory; int integer;

/* open the file */ fd = open (argv[1], O_RDWR, S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR);

/* create the memory-mapping */ file_memory = mmap (NULL, FILESIZE, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, fd, 0); close (fd);

/* read and print the integer */ sscanf (file_memory, "%d", &integer); printf ("file contains: %d", integer);

/* release the memory */ munmap (file_memory, FILESIZE);

return 0; }

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mmap.h

/*(It has this line of code only)*/

#define FILESIZE 256

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Makefile

all: mmap-read.o mmap-write.o gcc -o mmap-read mmap-read.o gcc -o mmap-write mmap-write.o

mmap-read.o: mmap-read.c gcc -c mmap-read.c

mmap-write.o: mmap-write.c gcc -c mmap-write.c

clean: rm -f *.o mmap-read mmap-write *~

Modify the mmap-write and mmap-read programs such that the former write n ran- dom integers to the file and the latter reads and prints all integers. n is an argument to both programs. It must be greater than zero. Include error handling when parsing the argument n and for the system calls open () and mmap(). Example executions: $ make $ ./mmap-write /tmp/afile 10 $ cat /tmp/afile -68 7 24 -10 48 24 -50 -97 52 -60 ./mmap-read /tmp/afile 10 -68 7 24 -10 48 24 -50 -97 52 -60 $ ./mmap-write /tmp/afile 0 invalid number of integers $ ./mmap-write /tmp/afile x failed to parse number of integers ./mmap-read /tmp/invalidfile 10 open error: No such file or directory