// Concurrent version of prime sieve of Eratosthenes. // Invented by Doug McIlroy, inventor of Unix pipes. // See http://swtch.com/~rsc/thread/. // The picture halfway down the page and the text surrounding it // explain what's going on here. // // Since NENV is 1024, we can print 1022 primes before running out. // The remaining two environments are the integer generator at the bottom // of main and user/idle. #include unsigned primeproc(int fd) { int i, id, p, pfd[2], wfd, r; // fetch a prime from our left neighbor top: if ((r = readn(fd, &p, 4)) != 4) panic("primeproc could not read initial prime: %d, %e", r, r >= 0 ? 0 : r); cprintf("%d\n", p); // fork a right neighbor to continue the chain if ((i=pipe(pfd)) < 0) panic("pipe: %e", i); if ((id = fork()) < 0) panic("fork: %e", id); if (id == 0) { close(fd); close(pfd[1]); fd = pfd[0]; goto top; } close(pfd[0]); wfd = pfd[1]; // filter out multiples of our prime for (;;) { if ((r=readn(fd, &i, 4)) != 4) panic("primeproc %d readn %d %d %e", p, fd, r, r >= 0 ? 0 : r); if (i%p) if ((r=write(wfd, &i, 4)) != 4) panic("primeproc %d write: %d %e", p, r, r >= 0 ? 0 : r); } } void umain(int argc, char **argv) { int i, id, p[2], r; binaryname = "primespipe"; if ((i=pipe(p)) < 0) panic("pipe: %e", i); // fork the first prime process in the chain if ((id=fork()) < 0) panic("fork: %e", id); if (id == 0) { close(p[1]); primeproc(p[0]); } close(p[0]); // feed all the integers through for (i=2;; i++) if ((r=write(p[1], &i, 4)) != 4) panic("generator write: %d, %e", r, r >= 0 ? 0 : r); }