#include /* for system's IPC_xxx definitions */ #include /* for shmget, shmat, shmdt, shmctl */ #include /* for semget, semctl, semop */ #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include "md5.h" #include "utils.h" const char MY_NAME[] = "Mrs. Premise"; // Set up a Mrs. Premise & Mrs. Conclusion conversation. void get_current_time(char *); int main() { int rc; char s[1024]; char last_message_i_wrote[256]; char md5ified_message[256]; int i = 0; int done = 0; struct param_struct params; int shm_id; void *address = NULL; int sem_id; struct shmid_ds shm_info; say(MY_NAME, "Oooo 'ello, I'm Mrs. Premise!"); read_params(¶ms); // Create the shared memory shm_id = shmget(params.key, params.size, IPC_CREAT | IPC_EXCL | params.permissions); if (shm_id == -1) { shm_id = 0; sprintf(s, "Creating the shared memory failed; errno is %d", errno); say(MY_NAME, s); } else { sprintf(s, "Shared memory's id is %d", shm_id); say(MY_NAME, s); // Attach the memory. address = shmat(shm_id, NULL, 0); if ((void *)-1 == address) { address = NULL; sprintf(s, "Attaching the shared memory failed; errno is %d", errno); say(MY_NAME, s); } else { sprintf(s, "shared memory address = %p", address); say(MY_NAME, s); } } if (address) { // Create the semaphore sem_id = semget(params.key, 1, IPC_CREAT | IPC_EXCL | params.permissions); if (-1 == sem_id) { sem_id = 0; sprintf(s, "Creating the semaphore failed; errno is %d", errno); say(MY_NAME, s); } else { sprintf(s, "the semaphore id is %d", sem_id); say(MY_NAME, s); // I seed the shared memory with a random string (the current time). get_current_time(s); strcpy((char *)address, s); strcpy(last_message_i_wrote, s); sprintf(s, "Wrote %zu characters: %s", strlen(last_message_i_wrote), last_message_i_wrote); say(MY_NAME, s); i = 0; while (!done) { sprintf(s, "iteration %d", i); say(MY_NAME, s); // Release the semaphore... rc = release_semaphore(MY_NAME, sem_id, params.live_dangerously); // ...and wait for it to become available again. In real code // I might want to sleep briefly before calling .acquire() in // order to politely give other processes an opportunity to grab // the semaphore while it is free so as to avoid starvation. But // this code is meant to be a stress test that maximizes the // opportunity for shared memory corruption and politeness is // not helpful in stress tests. if (!rc) rc = acquire_semaphore(MY_NAME, sem_id, params.live_dangerously); if (rc) done = 1; else { // I keep checking the shared memory until something new has // been written. while ( (!rc) && \ (!strcmp((char *)address, last_message_i_wrote)) ) { // Nothing new; give Mrs. Conclusion another change to respond. sprintf(s, "Read %zu characters '%s'", strlen((char *)address), (char *)address); say(MY_NAME, s); rc = release_semaphore(MY_NAME, sem_id, params.live_dangerously); if (!rc) { rc = acquire_semaphore(MY_NAME, sem_id, params.live_dangerously); } } if (rc) done = 1; else { sprintf(s, "Read %zu characters '%s'", strlen((char *)address), (char *)address); say(MY_NAME, s); // What I read must be the md5 of what I wrote or something's // gone wrong. md5ify(last_message_i_wrote, md5ified_message); if (strcmp(md5ified_message, (char *)address) == 0) { // Yes, the message is OK i++; if (i == params.iterations) done = 1; // MD5 the reply and write back to Mrs. Conclusion. md5ify(md5ified_message, md5ified_message); sprintf(s, "Writing %zu characters '%s'", strlen(md5ified_message), md5ified_message); say(MY_NAME, s); strcpy((char *)address, md5ified_message); strcpy((char *)last_message_i_wrote, md5ified_message); } else { sprintf(s, "Shared memory corruption after %d iterations.", i); say(MY_NAME, s); sprintf(s, "Mismatch; new message is '%s', expected '%s'.", (char *)address, md5ified_message); say(MY_NAME, s); done = 1; } } } } // Announce for one last time that the semaphore is free again so that // Mrs. Conclusion can exit. say(MY_NAME, "Final release of the semaphore followed by a 5 second pause"); rc = release_semaphore(MY_NAME, sem_id, params.live_dangerously); sleep(5); // ...before beginning to wait until it is free again. // Technically, this is bad practice. It's possible that on a // heavily loaded machine, Mrs. Conclusion wouldn't get a chance // to acquire the semaphore. There really ought to be a loop here // that waits for some sort of goodbye message but for purposes of // simplicity I'm skipping that. say(MY_NAME, "Final wait to acquire the semaphore"); rc = acquire_semaphore(MY_NAME, sem_id, params.live_dangerously); if (!rc) { say(MY_NAME, "Destroying the shared memory."); if (-1 == shmdt(address)) { sprintf(s, "Detaching the memory failed; errno is %d", errno); say(MY_NAME, s); } address = NULL; if (-1 == shmctl(shm_id, IPC_RMID, &shm_info)) { sprintf(s, "Removing the memory failed; errno is %d", errno); say(MY_NAME, s); } } } say(MY_NAME, "Destroying the semaphore."); // Clean up the semaphore if (-1 == semctl(sem_id, 0, IPC_RMID)) { sprintf(s, "Removing the semaphore failed; errno is %d", errno); say(MY_NAME, s); } } return 0; } void get_current_time(char *s) { time_t the_time; struct tm *the_localtime; char *pAscTime; the_time = time(NULL); the_localtime = localtime(&the_time); pAscTime = asctime(the_localtime); strcpy(s, pAscTime); }