I need to verify my source file and even omit some "service" lines,
so I do it using appendPlainText() of QPlainTextEdit. Appending a line
of course means a change,so after loading the file, the asterisk meaning that the file changed appears. I would like to have the more consistent behavior, that after loading, this status signal is not set. How can I reset it, after I loaded the file?
You can surround the part of the code that emits the unwanted signal by two QObject::blockSignals calls:
textEdit->blockSignals(true);
// load from file
textEdit->blockSignals(false);
or directly on QTextEdit::document (will block fewer other signals, I suppose):
textEdit->document()->blockSignals(true);
// load from file
textEdit->document()->blockSignals(false);
Maybe even call QTextEdit::setModified immediately after loading (two signals will be emitted).
Try each one of these out and give me know if any of them doesn't work.
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Currently I have the following part code in my Sync:
...
int index = file.find(remoteDir);
if(index >= 0){
file.erase(index, remoteDir.size());
file.insert(index, localDir);
}
...
// Uses PUT command on the file
Now I want to do the following instead:
If a file is the same as before, except for a rename, don't use the PUT command, but use the Rename command instead
TL;DR: Is there a way to check whether a file is the same as before except for a rename that occurred? So a way to compare both files (with different names) to see if they are the same?
check the md5sum, if it is different then the file is modified.
md5 check sum of a renamed file will remain same. Any change in content of file will give a different value.
I first tried to use Renjith method with md5, but I couldn't get it working (maybe it's because my C++ is for windows instead of Linux, I dunno.)
So instead I wrote my own function that does the following:
First check if the file is the exact same size (if this isn't the case we can just return false for the function instead of continuing).
If the sizes do match, continue checking the file-buffer per BUFFER_SIZE (in my case this is 1024). If the entire buffer of the file matches, return true.
PS: Make sure to close any open streams before returning.. My mistake here was that I had the code to close one stream after the return-statement (so it was never called), and therefore I had errno 13 when trying to rename the file.
I've got a series of cpp source file and I want to write another program to JUDGE if they can run correctly (give input and compare their output with standart output) . so how to:
call/spawn another program, and give a file to be its standard input
limit the time and memory of the child process (maybe setrlimit thing? is there any examples?)
donot let the process to read/write any file
use a file to be its standard output
compare the output with the standard output.
I think the 2nd and 3rd are the core part of this prob. Is there any way to do this?
ps. system is Linux
To do this right, you probably want to spawn the child program with fork, not system.
This allows you to do a few things. First of all, you can set up some pipes to the parent process so the parent can supply the input to the child, and capture the output from the child to compare to the expected result.
Second, it will let you call seteuid (or one of its close relatives like setreuid) to set the child process to run under a (very) limited user account, to prevent it from writing to files. When fork returns in the parent, you'll want to call setrlimit to limit the child's CPU usage.
Just to be clear: rather than directing the child's output to a file, then comparing that to the expected output, I'd capture the child's output directly via a pipe to the parent. From there the parent can write the data to a file if desired, but can also compare the output directly to what's expected, without going through a file.
std::string command = "/bin/local/app < my_input.txt > my_output_file.txt 2> my_error_file.txt";
int rv = std::system( command.c_str() );
1) The system function from the STL allows you to execute a program (basically as if invoked from a shell). Note that this approach is inherenly insecure, so only use it in a trusted environment.
2) You will need to use threads to be able to achieve this. There are a number of thread libraries available for C++, but I cannot give you recommendation.
[After edit in OP's post]
3) This one is harder. You either have to write a wrapper that monitors read/write access to files or do some Linux/Unix privilege magic to prevent it from accessing files.
4) You can redirect the output of a program (that it thinks goes to the standard output) by adding > outFile.txt after the way you would normally invoke the program (see 1)) -- e.g. otherapp > out.txt
5) You could run diff on the saved file (from 3)) to the "golden standard"/expected output captured in another file. Or use some other method that better fits your need (for example you don't care about certain formatting as long as the "content" is there). -- This part is really dependent on your needs. diff does a basic comparing job well.
I am using Qsettings for non gui products to store its settings into xml files. This is written as a library which gets used in C, C++ programs. There will be 1 xml file file for each product. Each product might have more than one sub products and they are written into xml by subproduct grouping as follows -
File: "product1.xml"
<product1>
<subproduct1>
<settings1>..</settings1>
....
<settingsn>..</settingsn>
</subproduct1>
...
<subproductn>
<settings1>..</settings1>
....
<settingsn>..</settingsn>
</subproductn>
</product1>
File: productn.xml
<productn>
<subproduct1>
<settings1>..</settings1>
....
<settingsn>..</settingsn>
</subproduct1>
...
<subproductn>
<settings1>..</settings1>
....
<settingsn>..</settingsn>
</subproductn>
</productn>
The code in one process does the following -
settings = new QSettings("product1.xml", XmlFormat);
settings.setValue("settings1",<value>)
sleep(20);
settings.setValue("settings2", <value2>)
settings.sync();
When the first process goes to sleep, I start another process which does the following -
settings = new QSettings("product1.xml", XmlFormat);
settings.remove("settings1")
settings.setValue("settings3", <value3>)
settings.sync();
I would expect the settings1 to go away from product1.xml file but it still persist in the file - product1.xml at the end of above two process. I am not using QCoreApplication(..) in my settings library. Please point issues if there is anything wrong in the above design.
This is kind of an odd thing that you're doing, but one thing to note is that the sync() call is what actually writes the file to disk. In this case if you want your second process to actually see the changes you've made, then you'll need to call sync() before your second process accesses the file in order to guarantee that it will actually see your modifications. Thus I would try putting a settings.sync() call right before your sleep(20)
Maybe you have to do delete settings; after the sync() to make sure it is not open, then do the writing in the other process?
Does this compile? What implementation of XmlFormat are you using and which OS? There must be some special code in your project for storing / reading to and from Xml - there must be something in this code which works differently from what you expect.
What is the fastest method in C++, to read a new line from a file which is written by another process. Or how my program can be notified that there is a new line in file so read it? (in linux)
The fastest method is to use pipes or events (for Windows apps).
If you still want use files, first of all that you really need, making sure, that a file has been really modified (use seek and compare it with prew value). Than go to the 'last val of seek' and read it.
And it will be better use mutex (if you read data from file).
Assuming the OS supports concurrent file access, all you should need to do is seek to EOF, wait for the stat to change then try to read from the file. You might want to add in a sleep to slow down the loop.
The 'tail' command on POISX (with the -f option) implements this - source code is available.
From the top of my head, did u tried something like this:
Count the lines in a file, store it.
Get the size of the file (google it, i dont want to ruin the fun :D ).
Then try to read from the last line u stored when size of the file changes... and again and again.
Have fun :)
Use inotify to get notification about file changes and then reread from your last pos if the file is now larger then before.
I am using QSettings to try and figure out if an INI is valid.(using status() to check) I made a purposefully invalid INI file and loaded it in. The first time the code is called, it returns invalid, but every time after that, it returns valid. Is this a bug in my code?
It's a Qt bug caused by some global state. Note that the difference in results happens whether or not you call delete on your QSettings object, which you should. Here's a brief summary of what happens on the first run:
The result code is set to NoError.
A global cache is checked to see if your file is present
Your file isn't present the first time, so it's parsed on qsettings.cpp line 1530 (Qt-4.6.2)
Parsing results in an error and the result code is set (see qsettings.cpp line 1552).
The error result code is returned.
And the second run is different:
The result code is set to NoError.
A global cache is checked, your file is present.
The file size and timestamp are checked to see if the file has changed (see qsettings.cpp line 1424).
The result code is returned, which happens to be NoError -- the file was assumed to have been parsed correctly.
Checked your code, you need to delete the file object before returning.
Apart from that, your code uses the QSettings::QSettings(fileName, format) c'tor to open an ini-file. That call ends in the function QConfFile::fromName (implemented in qsettings.cpp). As I read it (there are a few macros and such that I decided not to follow), the file is not re-opened if the file already is open (i.e. you have not deleted the object since the last time). Thus the status will be ok the second time around.