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I have a class in C ++ that calls fork () and then wait () s to execute a child process, but I get a compiler error when I try to do this.

Here is the code:

#include <iostream> #include <string> #include <sys/types.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> using namespace std; /* Connection class */ class Connection { string destination, userName, computerName; public: /* constructor for class You must pass it two strings. The first must be either the word "server" or the word "client". This will tell us which machine we want to connect to. The second will specify the username with which to connect to that machine. */ Connection(string state, string user="default_username") { if(state == "server") { cout << "You've chosen to connect to the 'server'.\n"; destination = "user.palmetto.clemson.edu:"; userName = user; cout << "Destination: " << destination << ", Username: " << userName << "\n"; cout << "Full connect argument: " << userName << "@" << destination << "\n"; } else if (state == "client") { cout << "You've chosen to connect to the 'client'.\n"; destination = "NIElaparo.ces.clemson.edu:"; userName = user; cout << "Destination: " << destination << ", Username: " << userName << "\n"; cout << "Full connect argument: " << userName << "@" << destination << "\n"; } else cout << "Error. Please enter either 'server' or 'client' for first argument in Connection().\n"; string atString = "@"; computerName = userName + atString + destination; } /* Send function for class Accepts a string as an argument which contains the name of the file to be sent. And then it uses exec() system calls to use "scp" to send the file. Note: this assumes that passwordless ssh has been set up between the client and server machines. */ /* ITS IN THIS FUNCTION THAT I GET THE ERROR. I SPLIT THE PROCESS WITH FORK, RUN EXECL() AND THEN WAIT() ON THE CHILD PROCESS */ int Send(string fileName) { pid_t pid; // char * parmList[] = {"scp", fileName, destination, NULL}; int status; if ((pid = fork()) < 0) { /* fork a child process */ printf("*** ERROR: forking child process failed\n"); exit(1); } else if (pid == 0) { /* for the child process: */ if (execl("scp", fileName.c_str(), computerName.c_str(), NULL) < 0) { /* execute the command */ printf("*** ERROR: exec failed\n"); exit(1); } } else { /* for the parent: */ while (wait(&status) != pid) /* wait for completion */ ; } } }; int main() { Connection *con = new Connection("server"); /* I'm just doing this to see if this works to create the string "testgoingnow". Who knows. */ //string string = "test".append("going").append("now\n"); string string1 = "test"; string at = "@"; string string2 = "going"; string new_string = string1 + at + string2; cout << new_string << "\n"; Send("test.txt"); //cout << string; return 0; } 

And I get this compiler error:

 connection.cpp: In member function 'int Connection::Send(std::string)': connection.cpp:64: error: no matching function for call to 'wait::wait(int*)' /usr/include/bits/waitstatus.h:68: note: candidates are: wait::wait() /usr/include/bits/waitstatus.h:68: note: wait::wait(const wait&) 

Answer 1

You may need to include the correct headers, try

 #include <sys/wait.h>