March 6, 2006

Coverage: [USP] Chapter 7

The Fibonacci Series on the Ring

[USP] §7.4
in-class exercise
we were able to compute up to and including the 78th Fibonacci number, using 77 processes
- using unsigned long long and the %llu conversion specifier

Flushing Buffers

standard output is typically line buffered
- means that the buffer is flushed when it contains a newline
- it is on our system
output written to named pipes on our system is not line buffered
- must explicitly call fflush (stdout), or
- use setvbuf to turn line buffering on

References

UNIX Systems Programming: Concurrency, Communication, and Threads

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