Description: The subject of this programming assignment is using Linux/UNIX system calls dealing
with processes and pipes. You are to write a C program that implements a simple client-
server system, where the server does centralized logging of messages from multiple clients.
The program is to create a set of subprocesses (children) using fork. The parent will function
as the logging server, and the children will function as clients, which send messages to the
server to be logged in a single log file. The client processes will use a pipe to send simple
messages to the server. Each will send a certain number of messages, at random intervals,
and then terminate. The server process will read all of the messages as sent, write them to
the log file, and eventually terminate after all the clients have terminated.
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lab3.c
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