Thread: WHAT is the PROBLEM??

  1. #1
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    WHAT is the PROBLEM??

    so I have this mini-shell running....and it's forking correctly but It's not executing the commands that I want it to run. It only executes ls no matter what command i type in (date, more, etc). I've modified the execve statement as many ways as I can think of, but to no avail. Here is my code:

    mars:$ cat modshell1.cpp
    #include <stdio.h>
    #include <unistd.h>
    #include <stdlib.h>
    #include <iostream.h>
    #include <string>
    #include <iomanip.h>
    #include <sys/wait.h>

    main()
    {
    cout<<"You have entered my 1814 shell"<<endl;
    string command;
    char *line[20];
    int n, pid, parentpid, childpids[0];


    while (command !="exit")
    {

    cout<<"GIMME:#";
    cin>>command;
    cout<<"The command you typed was: " <<command<<endl;
    if (command == "exit")
    return 0;

    //end of while

    parentpid=getpid();
    printf("I am the parent process and my pid is %d\n", getpid());
    if (pid=fork())
    {
    int status;
    waitpid(-1, &status, 0);
    childpids[n]=pid;
    }
    else
    {
    printf("I am a child process and my pid is %d\n", getpid());
    line[0] = "ls";
    line[1] = "-la";
    line[2] = NULL;
    execve("/bin/ls", line, NULL);
    exit(0);
    }
    printf("I am still the parent process and my pid is %d\n",
    getpid());

    // line[0] = "ls";
    // line[1] = "-la";
    // line[2] = NULL;

    // execve("/bin/ls", line, NULL);
    // kill(childpids[n]);
    }//end of while
    if (command =="exit")
    return 0;

    printf("I am still the parent process and my pid is %d\n", getpid());
    }//end of main

  2. #2
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    here it is cleaned up

    I guess I could have cleaned that up, huh? here it is:

    #include <stdio.h>
    #include <unistd.h>
    #include <stdlib.h>
    #include <iostream.h>
    #include <string>
    #include <iomanip.h>
    #include <sys/wait.h>

    main()
    {
    cout<<"You have entered my 1814 shell"<<endl;
    string command;
    char *line[20];
    int n, pid, parentpid, childpids[0];


    while (command !="exit")
    {

    cout<<"GIMME:#";
    cin>>command;
    cout<<"The command you typed was: " <<command<<endl;
    if (command == "exit")
    return 0;

    parentpid=getpid();
    printf("I am the parent process and my pid is %d\n", getpid());
    if (pid=fork())
    {
    int status;
    waitpid(-1, &status, 0);
    childpids[n]=pid;
    }
    else
    {
    printf("I am a child process and my pid is %d\n", getpid());
    line[0] = "ls";
    line[1] = "-la";
    line[2] = NULL;
    execve("/bin/ls", line, NULL);
    exit(0);
    }
    printf("I am still the parent process and my pid is %d\n",
    getpid());
    }//end of while
    if (command =="exit")
    return 0;

    printf("I am still the parent process and my pid is %d\n", getpid());
    }//end of main

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    > cin>>command;
    Well you have to break the command up into words, like "ls", "-la"

    Ok, so there's another problem, which is cin only reads one word at a time, so how about

    cin.getline( command );

    Right, having got a string of space separated words, you need to split them up into words

    For example
    char *str = command.c_str(); // is this how you get at the string within a c++ string object?

    Then to actually break out the words
    Code:
    char *p;
    int i = 0;
    for ( p = strtok( str, " " ); p != NULL ; p = strtok( NULL, " " ) ) {
      line[i++] = p;
    }
    line[i] = NULL;
    Then it should be
    execve("/bin/ls", line, NULL);

    Or perhaps
    execve(line[0], line, NULL);

    One more thing
    if (pid=fork())

    Should be
    if ( (pid=fork()) != 0 )

    In this example, it doesn't much matter, but you will be badly burnt in future if you type = when you meant ==

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