The directions in the Procedure and Details lead you right
down the path to success. Number 7
is absolutely critical, and its successful completion
brings great satisfaction.
If you have had an opeating systems course, you are
well prepared for this experiment. If not, you are
going to need to find a good sample program that uses
threads. The exercises make it clear just where to
put your threads code.
Important note: it is essential that you
indicate the threads library when you link your program.
Usually, when you forget a library, you know it right away.
(Try linking a socket program without the -lsocket!)
In this case, however, there is not even a warning message,
the program fails on the thread create.
Important note: for testing you will need a file client.
Use the one you wrote for Experiment 5.3.
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