plz help!!!

THE CODE :

Code:

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

void ShowStatus( int stat )
{
  if (WIFEXITED(stat))
    fprintf(stderr, "Normal termination: Exit status %d\n", WEXITSTATUS(stat) );
  else if (WIFSIGNALED(stat))
    fprintf( stderr, "Abnoral termination: Signal number %d\n", WTERMSIG(stat) );
  else
    fprintf(stderr,  "Unknown problem detected\n" );
}

int main(int argc, int **argv)
{
  pid_t retFork;
  int status;
  int up = 200;
  int down = 0;

  retFork= fork();  /*Create first child process*/
  switch (retFork){
  case -1:
    perror( "fork error" );
    exit (1);
  case 0:        /* Child process */
    exit( 1 );    /* Terminate normally */
  default:        /* Parent process */
    if (wait( &status ) != retFork){  /* wait for child */
      perror( "wait error" );
    }
    ShowStatus ( status );
  }



  retFork = fork();  /*Create second child process*/
  switch (retFork){
  case -1:
    perror( "fork error" );
    exit (1);
  case 0:        /* Child process */
    abort();    /* Generate SIGABRT */
    exit( 2 );    /*Terminate abnormally*/
  default:        /* Parent process */
    if (wait( &status ) != retFork ){  /* wait for child */
      perror( "wait error" );
    }
    ShowStatus ( status );
  }


  retFork = fork();  /*Create third child process*/
  switch (retFork){
  case -1:
    perror( "fork error" );
    exit (1);
  case 0:        /* Child process */
    up = up / down;    /* Generate SIGFPE (i.e., division by zero)*/
    exit(2);    /*Terminate abnormally*/
  default:        /* Parent process */
    if (wait( &status ) != retFork ){  /* wait for child */
      perror( "wait error" );
    }
    ShowStatus (status);
  }
  retFork = fork();  /*Create fourth child process*/
switch (retFork){
  case -1:
    perror( "fork error" );
    exit (1);
  case 0:        /* Child process */
    up = up / down;    /* Generate SIGFPE (i.e., division by zero)*/
    exit(2);    /*Terminate abnormally*/
  default:        /* Parent process */
    if (wait( &status ) != retFork ){  /* wait for child */
      perror( "wait error" );
    }
    ShowStatus (status);
  }
  return 0;
}

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I have been given this code and told to:

i. Modify the createwaitprocess.c program to create a fourth child process which terminates due to a segmentation fault. Does the addition of the fourth process change the output produced from the first three processes? Explain.

So i added in a fourth child process but then i got stuck!!! Does anyone know wat a segmentation fault is?? Or how I am suppose to cause one in this program?

thnx

seg fault is when the program tries to read memory not allocated to it...

Code:

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#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
        int i=0;
        char str[5]={'\0'};
        for(;;)
        {
                printf("%s",str[i++]);
        }
        return 0;
}

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A far more predictable way is to just dereference a NULL pointer

int *p = NULL;
*p = 0; // go boom