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+/*
+* Recitation Section Number:
+* Breakout Number:
+* Member Name
+* Member Name
+* Member Name
+* Member Name
+*/
+
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+#include <errno.h>
+#include <sys/stat.h>
+#include <fcntl.h>
+#include <string.h>
+#define BUFSIZE 20
+#define PERM 0644
+int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
+ int infile; char buffer[BUFSIZE];
+ // create/open a file named write.txt
+ infile = open("write.txt", O_CREAT | O_RDWR | O_TRUNC, PERM);
+ // write hello world to write.txtS
+ write(infile, "hello world\n", 12);
+ // spawn a child process and use this child process to reroute stdout to write.txt
+ pid_t pid = fork();
+ if (!pid) {
+ dup2(infile, 1);
+ }
+ // print pid
+ printf("Process %d\n", pid);
+
+ // use the child process spawned previously to read the contents from write.txt, restore output to stdout
+ // and then prints the contents of write.txt to stdout.
+ if (!pid) {
+ read(infile, buffer, 20);
+ int stdout = open("/dev/tty", O_WRONLY);
+ dup2(1, stdout);
+ printf("%s\n", buffer);
+ return 0;
+ }
+ // print pid
+ printf("%d\n", pid);
+ // close the file write.txt
+ close(infile);
+ return 0;
+} \ No newline at end of file