Module 61CSE218: Operating System

Processes (Part 2)

 Vietnamese-German University
 Ngoc Tran, Ph.D.
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 Processes
 InterProcess Communication (IPC)
 Examples of IPC Systems
 Communication in Client-Server Systems

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 Objectives
 To explore interprocess communication using shared memory
and message passing
 To describe communication in client-server systems

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 Interprocess Communication
 Processes within a system may be independent or cooperating
 Independent process cannot affect or be affected by the execution of
another process
 Cooperating process can affect or be affected by other processes,
including sharing data
 Reasons for cooperating processes:
 Information sharing
 Computation speedup
 Modularity
 Convenience
 Cooperating processes need InterProcess Communication (IPC)
 Two models of IPC
 Shared memory: a region of memory that is shared by cooperating
processes is established
 Message passing: communication takes place by means of messages
exchanged between the cooperating processes
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 Communications Models
(a) Message passing. (b) shared memory.

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 Interprocess Communication – Shared Memory

 An area of memory shared among the processes that wish to

communicate
 The communication is under the control of the users processes not
the operating system.
 Major issues is to provide mechanism that will allow the user
processes to synchronize their actions when they access shared
memory.

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 Shared Memory
Producer-Consumer Problem
 Paradigm for cooperating processes, producer process produces
information that is consumed by a consumer process
 unbounded-buffer places no practical limit on the size of the buffer
 The consumer may have to wait for new items, but the producer
can always produce new items.
 bounded-buffer assumes that there is a fixed buffer size
 The consumer must wait if the buffer is empty, and the producer
must wait if the buffer is full.

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 Bounded-Buffer – Shared-Memory Solution

 Shared data
#define BUFFER_SIZE 10
typedef struct {
. . .
} item;

item buffer[BUFFER_SIZE];
int in = 0;
int out = 0;

 Solution is correct, but can only use BUFFER_SIZE-1 elements

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 Bounded-Buffer – Producer

item next_produced;
while (true) {
/* produce an item in next produced */
while (((in + 1) % BUFFER_SIZE) == out)
; /* do nothing */
buffer[in] = next_produced;
in = (in + 1) % BUFFER_SIZE;
}

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 Bounded Buffer – Consumer
item next_consumed;
while (true) {
while (in == out)
; /* do nothing */
next_consumed = buffer[out];
out = (out + 1) % BUFFER_SIZE;

/* consume the item in next consumed */

}

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 Interprocess Communication – Message Passing

 Mechanism for processes to communicate and to synchronize

their actions

 Message system – processes communicate with each other

without resorting to shared variables

 IPC facility provides two operations:

 send(message)
 receive(message)

 The message size is either fixed or variable

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 Message Passing (Cont.)

 If processes P and Q wish to communicate, they need to:

 Establish a communication link between them
 Exchange messages via send/receive
 Implementation issues:
 How are links established?
 Can a link be associated with more than two processes?
 How many links can there be between every pair of
communicating processes?
 What is the capacity of a link?
 Is the size of a message that the link can accommodate fixed or
variable?
 Is a link unidirectional or bi-directional?

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 Message Passing (Cont.)

 Implementation of communication link

 Physical:
 Shared memory
 Hardware bus
 Network
 Logical:
 Direct or indirect
 Synchronous or asynchronous
 Automatic or explicit buffering

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 Direct Communication - Naming
 Processes must name each other explicitly:
 send(P, message) – send a message to process P
 receive(Q, message) – receive a message from process Q
 Properties of communication link
 Links are established automatically
 A link is associated with exactly one pair of communicating processes
 Between each pair there exists exactly one link
 The link may be unidirectional, but is usually bi-directional
 Symmetric vs Asymmetric
 Symmetric
– send(P, message) – send a message to process P
– receive(Q, message) – receive a message from process Q
 Assymetric
– send(P, message) – send a message to process P
– receive(id, message) - Receive a message from any process.
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 Indirect Communication - MailBox

 Messages are directed and received from mailboxes (also referred

to as ports)
 Each mailbox has a unique id
 Processes can communicate only if they share a mailbox
 Properties of communication link
 Link established only if processes share a common mailbox
 A link may be associated with many processes
 Each pair of processes may share several communication links
 Link may be unidirectional or bi-directional

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 Indirect Communication
 Operations
 create a new mailbox (port)
 send and receive messages through mailbox
 destroy a mailbox
 Primitives are defined as:
send(A, message) – send a message to mailbox A
receive(A, message) – receive a message from mailbox A

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 Indirect Communication: A case
 Mailbox sharing
 P1, P2, and P3 share mailbox A
 P1, sends; P2 and P3 receive
 Who gets the message?
 Solutions
1. Allow a link to be associated with at most two processes
2. Allow only one process at a time to execute a receive operation
3. Allow the system to select arbitrarily the receiver. Sender is notified
who the receiver was.

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 Synchronization
 Message passing may be either blocking or non-blocking
 Blocking is considered synchronous
 Blocking send -- the sender is blocked until the message is
received
 Blocking receive -- the receiver is blocked until a message is
available
 Non-blocking is considered asynchronous
 Non-blocking send -- the sender sends the message and
continue
 Non-blocking receive -- the receiver receives:
 A valid message, or
 Null message
 Different combinations possible
 If both send and receive are blocking, we have a rendezvous

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 Synchronization

 Producer-consumer becomes trivial

message next_produced;
while (true) {
/* produce an item in next produced */
send(next_produced);
}

message next_consumed;
while (true) {
receive(next_consumed);

/* consume the item in next consumed */

}

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 Buffering

 Queue of messages attached to the link.

 Implemented in one of three ways
1. Zero capacity – no messages are queued on a link.
Sender must wait for receiver (rendezvous)
2. Bounded capacity – finite length of n messages
Sender must wait if link full
3. Unbounded capacity – infinite length
Sender never waits

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 Examples of IPC Systems - POSIX

 POSIX Shared Memory

 Process first creates shared memory segment
shm_fd = shm_open(name, O CREAT | O RDWR, 0666);
 Also used to open an existing segment to share it
 Set the size of the object
ftruncate(shm_fd, 4096);
 Now the process could write to the shared memory
sprintf(shared memory, "Writing to shared
memory");

(Wikipedia)

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 IPC POSIX Producer

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 IPC POSIX Consumer

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 Examples of IPC Systems – Windows

 Message-passing centric via advanced local procedure call (LPC)

facility
 Only works between processes on the same system
 Uses ports (like mailboxes) to establish and maintain communication
channels
 Communication works as follows:
 The client opens a handle to the subsystem’s connection port
object.
 The client sends a connection request.
 The server creates two private communication ports and returns
the handle to one of them to the client.
 The client and server use the corresponding port handle to send
messages or callbacks and to listen for replies.

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 Local Procedure Calls in Windows

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 Communications in Client-Server Systems

 Sockets
 Remote Procedure Calls
 Pipes
 Remote Method Invocation (Java)

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 Sockets

 A socket is defined as an endpoint for communication

 Concatenation of IP address and port – a number included at

start of message packet to differentiate network services on a
host

 The socket 161.25.19.8:1625 refers to port 1625 on host

161.25.19.8

 Communication consists between a pair of sockets

 All ports below 1024 are well known, used for standard
services

 Special IP address 127.0.0.1 (loopback) to refer to system on

which process is running

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 Socket Communication

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 Sockets in Java
 Three types of sockets
 Connection-oriented (TCP)
 Connectionless (UDP)
 MulticastSocket class– data can be sent to multiple recipients

 Consider this “Date” server:

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 Sockets in Java

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 Sockets in Java

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 Socket Exercise 1
 Write 2 Java Programs: DateClient.java and DateServer.java with
copying and pasting the code in the two previous pages.
 Run 1 server and 1 client to see if they work well.
 Snapshot the screen of 1 server and 1 client as above with:
 The date is shown on the clients’ consoles.

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 Socket Exercise 2
 Write 2 Java Programs: BigIntegerClient.java and
BigIntegerServer.java with copying and pasting the code in the two
previous pages.
 The server after receiving the request from the client will send one
random Big Integer back to the client.
 Run 1 server and some clients to see if they work well.
 Snapshot the screen of 1 server and many clients as above with:
 The date is shown on the clients’ consoles.
 The list of clientnames are shown on the servers’ consoles.

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 Remote Procedure Calls
 Remote procedure call (RPC) abstracts procedure calls between processes
on networked systems
 Again uses ports for service differentiation
 Stubs – client-side proxy for the actual procedure on the server
 The client-side stub locates the server and marshalls the parameters
 The server-side stub receives this message, unpacks the marshalled
parameters, and performs the procedure on the server
 On Windows, stub code compile from specification written in Microsoft
Interface Definition Language (MIDL)

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 Execution of RPC

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 Pipes
 Acts as a conduit allowing two processes to communicate
 Issues:
 Is communication unidirectional or bidirectional?
 In the case of two-way communication, is it half or full-
duplex?
 Must there exist a relationship (i.e., parent-child) between
the communicating processes?
 Can the pipes be used over a network?
 Ordinary pipes – cannot be accessed from outside the process
that created it. Typically, a parent process creates a pipe and
uses it to communicate with a child process that it created.
 Named pipes – can be accessed without a parent-child
relationship.

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 Ordinary Pipes

 Ordinary Pipes allow communication in standard producer-consumer

style
 Producer writes to one end (the write-end of the pipe)
 Consumer reads from the other end (the read-end of the pipe)
 Ordinary pipes are therefore unidirectional
 Require parent-child relationship between communicating processes

 Windows calls these anonymous pipes

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 Ordinary Pipe in UNIX

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 Ordinary Pipe in UNIX

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 Ordinary Pipe in Windows – Parent Process

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 Ordinary Pipe in Windows

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 Ordinary Pipe in Windows – Child Process

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 Named Pipes

 Named Pipes are more powerful than ordinary pipes

 Communication is bidirectional
 No parent-child relationship is necessary between the
communicating processes
 Several processes can use the named pipe for communication
 Provided on both UNIX and Windows systems

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