CS 3733 Operating Systems, Spring 2005 Assignment 3 Comments

General Comments:

• This assignment was graded on the basis of 30 points.
• Learn to use lint.
  From the comments on assignment 1:
  Each main program is linted with all of the pieces needed to run it.
  To run lint on the client program:
  lint FIFO_client.c utility.c restart.c
• Do not say that all of the lint warnings are on the acceptable list if they are not.
• In the tests, don't uses files with the same date and time if one is older than the other (by a few seconds). This makes it hard to tell if the program is working.
• In the tests, I should not have to guess which listing was from the client directory and which was from the server directory.
• Link to the restart library, rather than copying the code into your program.
• You need to do error checking on all system calls and library functions.
• Make sure the server only sends back information on regular files.
• Watch out for possible buffer overflows in code such as:
  strcpy(argbuf,argv[3]);
• In some cases I did not understand how the source code you turned in could have produced the results you submitted. In this case I took off points and invited you to see me about it.