SeekReadWrite

C++ for Engineers and Scientists
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Chapter8: I/o Streams And Data Files
Section8.3: Random File Access
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Based on the previous code, please generate a new executable program named ForkExecSeekReadWrite. The program adopts fork() function to create a new child process. The child process should be able to execlp an independently compiled executable file named SeekReadWrite to read a data file named data_2D.txt, seek the file at the 4096th byte, copy 1024 bytes, and write the 1k bytes to a new file, named seekwrite.txt. The parent process should wait until the child process finishes its task. The appropriate printout should clearly indicate these requirements.
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