Lab: Xv6 and Unix utilities

pingpong

Write a program that uses UNIX system calls to ‘‘ping-pong’’ a byte between two processes over a pair of pipes, one for each direction.
The parent should send a byte to the child;
the child should print “: received ping”, where is its process ID, write the byte on the pipe to the parent, and exit;
the parent should read the byte from the child, print “: received pong”, and exit. Your solution should be in the file user/pingpong.c.

这是实验要求。用下面一张图来描述

关键有两点

1. 如何搞出两个进程
2. 如何保证顺序

然后看hints

Some hints:

Use pipe to create a pipe.
Use fork to create a child.
Use read to read from the pipe, and write to write to the pipe.

那就可以明白，用fork来弄出子进程，这就有了两个进程
用read和write来保证顺序

tips

fork，可以理解为，复制一份一模一样的进程，两个进程的数据，执行进度一模一样。
read系统调用，如果pipe中没有数据，会一直等待。