FabianHagmann / mergesort

custom implementation of mergesort in C using recursively forked child processes

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mergesort

custom implementation of mergesort in C using recursively forked child processes

Description

A detailed description of the functionality can be found at forksort_td.pdf

The forksort programm reads the input, that has to be sorted, from stdin. After successful completion the programm writes the sorted input lines to stdout.

If any error occures when managing resources or child processes the program terminates with EXIT_FAILURE, otherwise with EXIT_SUCCESS.

Synopsis

  forksort

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custom implementation of mergesort in C using recursively forked child processes


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