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Re: Flushing the content of an std::wstring to an UTF-8 encoded text file ..

Mark Salsbery14-Jan-09 7:24

Mark Salsbery

14-Jan-09 7:24

hINTModuleState wrote:
through an wofstreamù instead of ofstream in order to handle the std::wstring content..

There's probably a way to do the conversion to UTF-8 using the wcstombs()
function but I just went with what I know...
just go straight to the conversion API and write the result as a binary byte stream Smile | :)

Cheers,
Mark

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atomic file write

Dave_12-Jan-09 5:00

Dave_

12-Jan-09 5:00

I have a simple server app that uses WritePrivateProfileString() when a client changes the status of a user. I want to protect against multiple 'change status' requests resulting in clashing file writes.

The clients communicate with the server using UDP and the server uses a listener socket. The listener socket uses 'OnReceive()' to call a function to write to the data file.

I've been using a temp file to write to and then delete the working file then rename the temp file. It works most of the time but once in a while the main data file is deleted and there is no temp file. It's a bug but I'm wondering if there is a better way?

Thank you.

Re: atomic file write

Rajasekharan Vengalil12-Jan-09 5:21

Rajasekharan Vengalil

12-Jan-09 5:21

Does each client get serviced on a separate thread by the server? If yes, you'll need to use some kind of synchronization object while writing to the file. A CRITICAL_SECTION might do nicely for you.

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Re: atomic file write

Dave_12-Jan-09 7:21

Dave_

12-Jan-09 7:21

I'm using a single instance of the listener socket. Would that be enough to ensure the file is only written by one client at a time?

Re: atomic file write

Rajasekharan Vengalil12-Jan-09 7:29

Rajasekharan Vengalil

12-Jan-09 7:29

What do you do when your "accept" (or the equivalent Windows socket extensions API) call returns? Do you launch another thread to respond to the client socket returned by "accept"? If you are doing it on the same thread as the one that invokes "accept" then you shouldn't require synchronization; in which case the problem lies elsewhere.

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Re: atomic file write

Dave_12-Jan-09 7:31

Dave_

12-Jan-09 7:31

I have a pointer to the server object (the object that created the listener socket), and I call a function in that server object. No additional threads.

Thank you for your time on this.

Re: atomic file write

Rajasekharan Vengalil12-Jan-09 9:11

Rajasekharan Vengalil

12-Jan-09 9:11

OK. You might want to conduct a little experiment. From your "OnReceive" handler, trace the return value of "GetCurrentThreadId" to a log and have multiple clients connect simultaneously to the server. Now inspect the log to see if the values logged are the same for all the clients.

Also, is there a code snippet that you can post that shows how you are doing the file processing?

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Again New / Delete [modified]

ptr_Electron12-Jan-09 2:33

ptr_Electron

12-Jan-09 2:33

CORBA::Boolean CScope::Fineroot
(
        IlAdapter::BaseTable*& corbaTexts,     // O: Information )
{
    
    corbaTexts = new IlAdapter::BaseTable; // where to delelte
    // this is out put parameter
    if (result)
    {
     ///
    }
    return result;
}

modified on Monday, January 12, 2009 8:53 AM

Again confusing formatting.

Iain Clarke, Warrior Programmer12-Jan-09 2:50

Iain Clarke, Warrior Programmer

12-Jan-09 2:50

Please read Chris's "how to get someone to care enough to answer your question" rules.

One of them mentions the pre tag.

Iain.

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Re: Again New / Delete

Iain Clarke, Warrior Programmer12-Jan-09 2:53

Iain Clarke, Warrior Programmer

12-Jan-09 2:53

Giving a real answer...

We can have no idea when to delete the memory you just newed. You're showing a member function that makes a new object for you.

The answer to your question depends on the code that calls this function. We have no idea about that.

result is not defined, and not shown where it comes from either.

I know we're clever in this forum, but we're not gods. (OK, CPallini might be)

Iain.

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Re: Again New / Delete

CPallini13-Jan-09 0:15

CPallini

13-Jan-09 0:15

Iain Clarke wrote:
OK, CPallini might be

Always mocking that poor guy!
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Re: Again New / Delete

Maximilien12-Jan-09 3:12

Maximilien

12-Jan-09 3:12

Me think it should be at least in the caller of the method CScope::Fineroot.

It depends where the data will used and how low should it life should be.

Re: Again New / Delete

Cedric Moonen12-Jan-09 3:23

Cedric Moonen

12-Jan-09 3:23

ptr_Electron wrote:
CORBA

Ok, there is the problem Poke tongue | ;-P

. No seriously, doing memory management in CORBA is really a pain. If you don't even understand the basic concepts of memory management in C++, then you'll be in great troubles. If you really wants to understand things a bit more in details, you really have to read a book on CORBA and understand it, otherwise you'll be completely lost. And almost nobody here will be able to help you because it's too specific to your application.

Good luck...

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Software developer

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OpenGL game tutorial in C++

Re: Again New / Delete

Rajesh R Subramanian12-Jan-09 5:29

Rajesh R Subramanian

12-Jan-09 5:29

If you are not going to use it outside the Fineroot function, then delete it at the end.

The actual confusion is that you are not showing us what you are gonna do with corbaTexts. If you're going to use it outside the scope of this function, delete it at the place where it will be used (and *after* it is used).

It is a crappy thing, but it's life -^ Carlo Pallini

Get the machine name of the mapped drive C++

raesa12-Jan-09 2:17

raesa

12-Jan-09 2:17

Hi.....

I have a small problem in getting the hostname of the mapped drive.
I have mapped a shared folder of a machine in network on my system.
I have to get the name of the machine from the mapped drive.
I was not able to find any proper function for that.
Please do let me know if there is some function or some way to do it, because in my program i have to get the name of the machine.Is there a way out?
Please do help me out.

Thnx in advance...

Re: Get the machine name of the mapped drive C++

David Crow12-Jan-09 3:00

David Crow

12-Jan-09 3:00

raesa wrote:
Please do let me know if there is some function or some way to do it, because in my program i have to get the name of the machine.Is there a way out?

Have you tried WNetGetConnection()?

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oops

Iain Clarke, Warrior Programmer12-Jan-09 3:03

Iain Clarke, Warrior Programmer

12-Jan-09 3:03

oops

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Re: Get the machine name of the mapped drive C++

raesa12-Jan-09 17:52

raesa

12-Jan-09 17:52

Thnks alot for the help.

Re: Get the machine name of the mapped drive C++

Iain Clarke, Warrior Programmer12-Jan-09 3:04

Iain Clarke, Warrior Programmer

12-Jan-09 3:04

I did some digging, and the following code worked for me:

TCHAR szBuf [MAX_PATH];
DWORD dwSize = MAX_PATH;
DWORD dw = WNetGetConnection (_T("p:"), szBuf, &dwSize);

It gave me "\\myserveraddress\sharename" in szBuf.

Iain.

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Hamid_RT12-Jan-09 3:26

Hamid_RT

12-Jan-09 3:26

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Re: Get the machine name of the mapped drive C++

Iain Clarke, Warrior Programmer12-Jan-09 4:03

Iain Clarke, Warrior Programmer

12-Jan-09 4:03

That was one of the first results in google, but it's using .net namespace functionality, and mapping drives.

So almost the exact opposite of what he needs.

Phew, regained my sense of superiority after replying to the wrong person earlier!

Iain.

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Re: Get the machine name of the mapped drive C++

David Crow12-Jan-09 4:25

David Crow

12-Jan-09 4:25

Iain Clarke wrote:
Phew, regained my sense of superiority after replying to the wrong person earlier!

You can still delete that post and hardly anyone would know.

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Re: Get the machine name of the mapped drive C++

Hamid_RT12-Jan-09 5:12

Hamid_RT

12-Jan-09 5:12

Yeah I didnt see .net I delete previous post.
Now I changed title of my reply. Big Grin | :-D

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