Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 15:47:36 -0500 From: Greg Lehey <grog@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> To: rover@lglobus.ru, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is there correct way for program to read from itself? Message-ID: <19991118154736.22915@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> In-Reply-To: <19991118232846.A63288@fly.lglobus.ru>; from Oleg V. Volkov on Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 11:28:46PM %2B0300 References: <19991118065815.B89755@fly.lglobus.ru> <19991118102421.09370@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> <19991118223426.A62913@fly.lglobus.ru> <19991118152324.37840@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> <19991118232846.A63288@fly.lglobus.ru>
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On Thursday, 18 November 1999 at 23:28:46 +0300, Oleg V. Volkov wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 03:23:24PM -0500, Greg Lehey wrote:
>>>>> Is there correct way for porgram to read from it's own file?
>>>> I'm not sure I understand. What do you mean by "it's own file"?
>>>> If you mean the object file, sure. Where's the problem?
>>> I mean this situation:
>>> I have some program /usr/local/bin/someprog. Is there a way for it
>>> to read from itself (from /usr/local/bin/someprog).
>> Sure, that's what I said. What do you expect to find?
>
> Could you give me short example?
OK, here's copyme.c:
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
extern int errno;
main (int argc, char *argv [])
{
int me = open (argv [0], O_RDONLY);
int you;
char buffer [4096];
int count;
if (argc < 2)
{
fprintf (stderr, "No output file specified\n");
return 1;
}
if (me < 0)
{
fprintf (stderr, "Can't open %s: %s\n", argv [0], strerror (errno));
return 1;
}
you = open (argv [1], O_RDWR | O_APPEND | O_CREAT, S_IRUSR);
if (you < 0)
{
fprintf (stderr, "Can't open %s: %s\n", argv [1], strerror (errno));
return 1;
}
while ((count = read (me, buffer, 4096)) > 0)
{
if (write (you, buffer, count) < 0)
{
perror ("Can't write");
return 1;
}
}
if (count < 0)
{
perror ("Can't read");
return 1;
}
return ;
}
And here's what happens when I run it:
$ copyme foo
$ cmp copyme foo
$ ls -l copyme foo
-rwxrwxrwx 1 grog eng 4197 Nov 18 15:44 copyme
-r-------- 1 grog eng 4197 Nov 18 15:44 foo
$
Not much use, is it? Was that your class assignment?
Greg
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