CS 3733 Operating Systems, Fall 2003 Assignment 3 Comments

Please remember that you are not allowed to work with others on these assignments. What you turn in must be representative of your work.

• You must run lint separately on the two programs. There can only be one main function in all of the files you lint together.
• You should never have any "implicitly declared to return int" or "value type used inconsistently" in your lint warnings.
• You need to understand the difference between a line and a string.
• What is wrong with the following:
  struct stat *buf;
  fstat(fd, buf);
• Always check for errors when you malloc, even if the malloc is done by strdup.
• Make backup copies of your source files. You never know when you are going to erase something by mistake.
• Don't call atoi in a loop, as in while (count < atoi(num)
• The system include files usually come before the include files from your directory.
• pipereceiver should not try to read bytes passed the length given.
  pipereceiver cannot use copyfile but pipesender can.
• Use fstat or stat but not lstat