Udpcast June 2011

udpcast@udpcast.linux.lu

2 participants
9 discussions

exit code not passed if rx pipe fails
by George Coulouris 25 Apr '12

25 Apr '12

Hello, If udp-receiver is writing to a pipe and the pipe fails, udp-receiver will incorrectly exit with a returncode of zero. This is easily tested with a trivial pipe program that copies stdin to stdout, but exits with a nonzero status upon encountering eof. Adding the following to startReceiver() in udpr-negotiate.c is sufficient to fix this behavior: <---- cut here int ret; ... if(pipePid) { ret=udpc_waitForProcess(pipePid, "Pipe"); } ... return ret; <---- cut here Regards, George Coulouris National Center for Biotechnology Information (contractor)

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patch submit: Use "flprintf()" on every printout on stderr
by Julien Aube 17 Jul '11

17 Jul '11

Hello, While using udpcast, I found out that it may be very verbose on stderr, even if a logfile is specified. This turns out to be a problem for our embedded application where the stderr is a (slow) serial port. So here is a patch which replace every occurrence of fprint(sdterr,...) by the flprintf() function defined in log.c. I thought it might be of some use for people. (This patch also happen to cleanup the blank spaces at end of lines) Julien -- People in the embedded space don't do prototypes. They hack something until it works, then it's done. --- Always code as if the person who will maintain your code is a maniac serial killer that knows where you live

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castomize udpcast iso image
by Gianluigi Autuori 17 Jul '11

17 Jul '11

I want to use Udpcast from iso image in this scenario: - first pc boots from udpcast iso image -second pc boots from ethernet using pxe that sends him udpreceiver How can I do it? thanks

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patch submit: Provide a watchdog on receiver
by Julien Aube 17 Jul '11

17 Jul '11

Hello, I've made the attached patch to prevent the situation where the udp-receiver hang out indefinitly waiting for data when the server has been killed after having started to send data. In this case, the udp-received program would hang indefinitly. Since in my program, udp-receiver is called through system(...); the result is a hang. With this patch I use a SIGALARM signal to reset a flag to 0, and act as a watchdog. The watchdog is started just before the sending data phase of the protocol, and is feed each time a packet is received from the server. If 2 times in a row the watchdog is not feed, the program exit in error. The current value is set as a #define as 60s, which is in effect 2mn before udp-receiver is actually killed. However I am aware that this implementation is somehow crude, and I would be interested by any other way to do that. Additionally, if someone is interested by this patch, I could make it so that the watchdog period is configurable on the command-line. Thanks for your time, Julien -- People in the embedded space don't do prototypes. They hack something until it works, then it's done. --- Always code as if the person who will maintain your code is a maniac serial killer that knows where you live

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Support for Apple iMac keyboards (hid_apple) in udpcast images
by Frederik Himpe 17 Jul '11

17 Jul '11

I tried booting a recent Apple iMac with the latest kernel and an initrd from cast-o-matic, but the kayboard fails to work. Looking at an installed Debian system, the module hid_apple is loaded. Is this driver missing from the udpcast images, and is it possible to add it? -- Frederik Himpe <fhimpe(a)vub.ac.be> Vrije Universiteit Brussel

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Socket problem in receiver
by Sergio Sánchez Vega 29 Jun '11

29 Jun '11

Hello, I´m using latest udpcast versión (20100130) in Debian machines to transfer files in unidirectional mode. Sometimes I see the next message in receiver machine: Receiver error After putting some fprintf I realized the problem is in the file udpr-negotiate.c in line 191: sock = udpc_selectSock(client_config.socks, NR_CLIENT_SOCKS, net_config->startTimeout); if(sock < 0) { return -1; } Why sock is < 0? What should I do? Thanks

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static compile
by cruejones＠comcast.net 29 Jun '11

29 Jun '11

Is there an easy way to statically compile udpcast? currently: # ldd udp-receiver linux-vdso.so.1 => (0x00007fffde082000) libdl.so.2 => /lib64/libdl.so.2 (0x00007fd71bef7000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib64/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007fd71bcda000) libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x00007fd71b97c000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007fd71c0fb000) thanks

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Feature request: MBR-only cloning
by gencap＠email.it 29 Jun '11

29 Jun '11

It would be useful to have in device selection menu, in addition to whole hard drive and partitions (hda, hda1..hdn), a "MBR-only" item (e.g. to access just the first 512 bytes of the device). Cloning a single partition it's usually enough (and it's the typical use) but when the source partition has been resized, transferring the whole drive could be a waste of time. Of course, I'm referring to cast-o-matic generated images: with a full-blown environment it's easy to "dd" and cast the MBR. Another task that is pretty common in a classroom or lab environment, is cloning the CMOS memory: I'm using a DOS based utility but with a bunch of lines of code it should be possible to patch busybox to handle CMOS memory operations. -- Caselle da 1GB, trasmetti allegati fino a 3GB e in piu' IMAP, POP3 e SMTP autenticato? GRATIS solo con Email.it: http://www.email.it/f Sponsor: Prenota la Vacanza entro il 20/5 un bambino fino 12 anni in camera con i genitori GRATIS (min 7 notti)Pens Compl da Euro 60. Sardegna-Castelsardo Hotel Pedraladda Clicca qui: http://adv.email.it/cgi-bin/foclick.cgi?mid=11439&d=20110517

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Note on links to projects on web page.
by Michael D. Setzer II 29 Jun '11

29 Jun '11

Just wanted to note that my g4l project includes options for using udpcast, so not sure how one would get it added to the link. http://udpcast.linux.lu/links.html I've used the udpcast directly from my project and from built cds, and find if very useful. +----------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor Guam Community College Computer Center mailto:mikes@kuentos.guam.net mailto:msetzerii@gmail.com http://www.guam.net/home/mikes Guam - Where America's Day Begins G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/ +----------------------------------------------------------+ http://setiathome.berkeley.edu (Original) Number of Seti Units Returned: 19,471 Processing time: 32 years, 290 days, 12 hours, 58 minutes (Total Hours: 287,489) BOINC@HOME CREDITS SETI 10932446.505263 | EINSTEIN 6085166.340851 ROSETTA 3298725.545452 | ABC 6562986.591675

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Udpcast June 2011