s out a line containing the single character 1 to fd. C write()'s out a line containing the single character 2 to fd. C write()'s out a line containing the single character 3 to fd. P write()'s out a line containing the single character 4 to fd. Assuming that the above actions are ordered chronologically: a )What will be the contents

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A process P forks a child C. After the fork(), both parent and child open() the same file for writing using the flag O_WRONLY resulting in descriptor fd. Subsequently

P write()'s out a line containing the single character 1 to fd.

C write()'s out a line containing the single character 2 to fd.

C write()'s out a line containing the single character 3 to fd.

P write()'s out a line containing the single character 4 to fd.

Assuming that the above actions are ordered chronologically:

a )What will be the contents of the file after the above sequence of actions?

b ) How can you set things up so that the file captures all of the output? 

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