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  61   06 Jun 2004 Konstantin Olchanski Makefile: set -rpath
I commited Makefile bits to set the RPATH on dynamically linked executables
to find libmidas.so and ROOT shared libraries without setting
LD_LIBRARY_PATH , etc. K.O.
  62   28 Apr 2004 Konstantin Olchanski mhttpd "start run" input field length?
I am setting up a new experiment and I added a "comment" field to "/
Experiment/Edit on start". When I start the run, I see this field, but I
cannot enter anything: the HTML "maxlength" is zero (or 1?). I traced this
to mhttpd.c: if (this is a string) maxlength = key.item_size. But what is
key.item_size for a string? The current length? If so, how do I enter a
string that is longer than the current one (zero in case I start from
scratch). I am stumped! K.O.
  63   30 Apr 2004 Stefan Ritt mhttpd
> I am setting up a new experiment and I added a "comment" field to "/
> Experiment/Edit on start". When I start the run, I see this field, but I
> cannot enter anything: the HTML "maxlength" is zero (or 1?). I traced this
> to mhttpd.c: if (this is a string) maxlength = key.item_size. But what is
> key.item_size for a string? The current length? If so, how do I enter a
> string that is longer than the current one (zero in case I start from
> scratch). I am stumped! K.O.

Your problem is that you created a ODB string with zero length. If you do this
through ODBEdit, a default length of 32 is used:

[local:Test:S]Edit on start>cr string Comment
String length [32]:
[local:Test:S]Edit on start>ls -l
Key name                        Type    #Val  Size  Last Opn Mode Value
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Comment                         STRING  1     32    2s   0   RWD
[local:Test:S]Edit on start>

which then results in a maxlength of 32 as well during run start. I presume
you used mhttpd itself to create the string. Trying to reporduce this, I found
that mhttpd creates strings with zero length. I will fix this soon. Until
then, use ODBEdit to create your strings.
  64   30 Mar 2004 Konstantin Olchanski elog fixes
I am about to commit the mhttpd Elog fixes we have been using in TWIST since
about October. The infamous Elog "last N days" problem is fixed, sundry
memory overruns are caught and assert()ed.

For the curious, the "last N days" problem was caused by uninitialized data
in the elog handling code. A non-zero-terminated string was read from a file
and passed to atoi(). Here is a simplifed illustration:

char str[256]; // uninitialized, filled with whatever happens on the stack
read(file,str,6); // read 6 bytes, non-zero terminated
// str now looks like this: "123456UUUUUUUUU....", "U" is uninitialized memory
int len = atoi(str); // if the first "U" happens to be a number, we lose.

The obvious fix is to add "str[6]=0" before the atoi() call.

Attached is the CVS diff for the proposed changes. Please comment.

K.O.
Attachment 1: elog-fixes.txt
Index: src/midas.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/local/cvsroot/midas/src/midas.c,v
retrieving revision 1.203
diff -u -r1.203 midas.c
--- src/midas.c	19 Mar 2004 09:58:22 -0000	1.203
+++ src/midas.c	31 Mar 2004 05:11:00 -0000
@@ -14814,8 +14814,9 @@
 \********************************************************************/
 
 /********************************************************************/
-void el_decode(char *message, char *key, char *result)
+void el_decode(char *message, char *key, char *result, int size)
 {
+   char *rstart = result;
    char *pc;
 
    if (result == NULL)
@@ -14828,6 +14829,8 @@
          *result++ = *pc++;
       *result = 0;
    }
+
+   assert(strlen(rstart) < size);
 }
 
 /**dox***************************************************************/
@@ -15020,9 +15023,9 @@
          size = atoi(str + 9);
          read(fh, message, size);
 
-         el_decode(message, "Date: ", date);
-         el_decode(message, "Thread: ", thread);
-         el_decode(message, "Attachment: ", attachment);
+         el_decode(message, "Date: ", date, sizeof(date));
+         el_decode(message, "Thread: ", thread, sizeof(thread));
+         el_decode(message, "Attachment: ", attachment, sizeof(attachment));
 
          /* buffer tail of logfile */
          lseek(fh, 0, SEEK_END);
@@ -15092,7 +15095,7 @@
       sprintf(message + strlen(message), "========================================\n");
       strcat(message, text);
 
-      assert(strlen(message) < sizeof(message));        // bomb out on array overrun.
+      assert(strlen(message) < sizeof(message)); /* bomb out on array overrun. */
 
       size = 0;
       sprintf(start_str, "$Start$: %6d\n", size);
@@ -15104,6 +15107,9 @@
          sprintf(tag, "%02d%02d%02d.%d", tms->tm_year % 100, tms->tm_mon + 1,
                  tms->tm_mday, (int) TELL(fh));
 
+      /* size has to fit in 6 digits */
+      assert(size < 999999);
+
       sprintf(start_str, "$Start$: %6d\n", size);
       sprintf(end_str, "$End$:   %6d\n\f", size);
 
@@ -15339,13 +15345,20 @@
          return EL_FILE_ERROR;
       }
 
-      if (strncmp(str, "$End$: ", 7) == 0) {
-         size = atoi(str + 7);
-         lseek(*fh, -size, SEEK_CUR);
-      } else {
+      if (strncmp(str, "$End$: ", 7) != 0) {
          close(*fh);
          return EL_FILE_ERROR;
       }
+        
+      /* make sure the input string to atoi() is zero-terminated:
+       * $End$:      355garbage
+       * 01234567890123456789 */
+      str[15] = 0;
+
+      size = atoi(str + 7);
+      assert(size > 15);
+
+      lseek(*fh, -size, SEEK_CUR);
 
       /* adjust tag */
       sprintf(strchr(tag, '.') + 1, "%d", (int) TELL(*fh));
@@ -15364,14 +15377,21 @@
       }
       lseek(*fh, -15, SEEK_CUR);
 
-      if (strncmp(str, "$Start$: ", 9) == 0) {
-         size = atoi(str + 9);
-         lseek(*fh, size, SEEK_CUR);
-      } else {
+      if (strncmp(str, "$Start$: ", 9) != 0) {
          close(*fh);
          return EL_FILE_ERROR;
       }
 
+      /* make sure the input string to atoi() is zero-terminated
+       * $Start$:    606garbage
+       * 01234567890123456789 */
+      str[15] = 0;
+
+      size = atoi(str+9);
+      assert(size > 15);
+
+      lseek(*fh, size, SEEK_CUR);
+
       /* if EOF, goto next day */
       i = read(*fh, str, 15);
       if (i < 15) {
@@ -15444,7 +15464,7 @@
 
 \********************************************************************/
 {
-   int size, fh, offset, search_status;
+   int size, fh = 0, offset, search_status, rd;
    char str[256], *p;
    char message[10000], thread[256], attachment_all[256];
 
@@ -15462,10 +15482,24 @@
 
    /* extract message size */
    offset = TELL(fh);
-   read(fh, str, 16);
-   size = atoi(str + 9);
+   rd = read(fh, str, 15);
+   assert(rd == 15);
+   
+   /* make sure the input string is zero-terminated before we call atoi() */
+   str[15] = 0;
+
+   /* get size */
+   size = atoi(str+9);
+   
+   assert(strncmp(str,"$Start$:",8) == 0);
+   assert(size > 15);
+   assert(size < sizeof(message));
+   
    memset(message, 0, sizeof(message));
-   read(fh, message, size);
+
+   rd = read(fh, message, size);
+   assert(rd > 0);
+   assert((rd+15 == size)||(rd == size));
 
    close(fh);
 
@@ -15473,14 +15507,14 @@
    if (strstr(message, "Run: ") && run)
       *run = atoi(strstr(message, "Run: ") + 5);
 
-   el_decode(message, "Date: ", date);
-   el_decode(message, "Thread: ", thread);
-   el_decode(message, "Author: ", author);
-   el_decode(message, "Type: ", type);
-   el_decode(message, "System: ", system);
-   el_decode(message, "Subject: ", subject);
-   el_decode(message, "Attachment: ", attachment_all);
-   el_decode(message, "Encoding: ", encoding);
+   el_decode(message, "Date: ",     date,     80); /* size from show_elog_submit_query() */
+   el_decode(message, "Thread: ", thread, sizeof(thread));
+   el_decode(message, "Author: ",   author,   80); /* size from show_elog_submit_query() */
+   el_decode(message, "Type: ",     type,     80); /* size from show_elog_submit_query() */
+   el_decode(message, "System: ",   system,   80); /* size from show_elog_submit_query() */
+   el_decode(message, "Subject: ",  subject, 256); /* size from show_elog_submit_query() */
+   el_decode(message, "Attachment: ", attachment_all, sizeof(attachment_all));
+   el_decode(message, "Encoding: ", encoding, 80); /* size from show_elog_submit_query() */
 
    /* break apart attachements */
    if (attachment1 && attachment2 && attachment3) {
@@ -15496,6 +15530,10 @@
                strcpy(attachment3, p);
          }
       }
+
+      assert(strlen(attachment1) < 256); /* size from show_elog_submit_query() */
+      assert(strlen(attachment2) < 256); /* size from show_elog_submit_query() */
+      assert(strlen(attachment3) < 256); /* size from show_elog_submit_query() */
    }
 
    /* conver thread in reply-to and reply-from */
  65   30 Mar 2004 Stefan Ritt elog fixes
Thanks for fixing these long lasting bugs. The code is much cleaner now, please
commit it.
  66   19 Jan 2004 Konstantin Olchanski darwin aka macosx changes
I commited the final bits to make Midas build on Darwin aka macosx.

Here is the summary:

1) I treat Darwin as a funny linux, so OS_LINUX is always defined
2) OS_DARWIN is defined for places where the two differ
3) system dependant directory is "midas/darwin/{bin,lib}"
4) a few header files had to be moved around to dodge namespace pollution by Apple system 
header files (i.e. one of the PowerPC header files #defines PVM- collision with PVM in mana.c, 
another #defines Free(x)- collision with ROOT header files)
5) ss_thread_create() and ss_thread_kill() now use midas_thread_t. On Darwin ptherad_t is not 
an "int".
6) the Makefile has no support for building the midas shared library on macosx.
7) on my Mac OS 10.2.8 machine, "make all" works, "odbedit" and "mhttpd" run. This is the 
full extent of my testing. Status on Mac OS 10.3.x is unknown.

K.O.
  67   14 Jan 2004 Konstantin Olchanski First try- midas on darwin/macosx
While watching "The Wizard of Oz", the greatest movie ever made, I took a shot at building 
midas on my macosx computer. After stumbling on a few small and on a few hard problems, I 
built almost everything. However, odb does not work- some further debugging is in order.

Anyway, the easy problems are:
- a few missing header files: pty.h, sys/vfs.h, malloc.h
- a few missing features in system.c (stime(), "get tape position")
- /usr/include/string.h already has strlcpy() & co.
- dbg_malloc() has inconsistent prototypes (size_t vs unsigned int)
- for reasons unknown, PVM is #defined. This flushed a bug in mana.c

A few hard problems:
- namespace pollution by Apple- they #define ALIGN in system headers, colliding with ALIGN 
in midas.h. I was amazed that the two are almost identical, but MIDAS ALIGN aligns to 8 
bytes, while Apple does 4 bytes. ALIGN is used all over the place and I am not sure how to 
reconcile this.
- "timezone" in mhttpd.c. On linux, it's an "int", on darwin, it's a function. What gives?
- building libmidas.a requires running ranlib
- building libmidas.so requires unknown macosx specific magic.

For your enjoyment, the "cvs diff" is attached. The resulting code is known to not work.

K.O.
Attachment 1: xxx
? .ALARM.SHM
? .ELOG.SHM
? .ODB.SHM
? .SYSMSG.SHM
? darwin
? midas.log
? xx
? xxx
Index: Makefile
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/local/cvsroot/midas/Makefile,v
retrieving revision 1.50
diff -r1.50 Makefile
0a1
> 
218a220,224
> #
> # Uncomment the next line to build the midas shared library
> #
> NEED_SHLIB=1
> 
268a275,290
> # MacOSX/Darwin is just a funny Linux
> #
> ifeq ($(OSTYPE),Darwin)
> OSTYPE = darwin
> endif
> 
> ifeq ($(OSTYPE),darwin)
> OS_DIR = darwin
> OSFLAGS = -DOS_LINUX -DOS_DARWIN -DHAVE_STRLCPY -fPIC -Wno-unused-function
> LIBS = -lpthread
> SPECIFIC_OS_PRG = $(BIN_DIR)/mlxspeaker
> NEED_RANLIB=1
> NEED_SHLIB=
> endif
> 
> #-----------------------
340a363,364
> LIB    =$(LIBNAME)
> ifdef NEED_SHLIB
342,344c366,367
< LIB =   -lmidas
< # Uncomment this for static linking of midas executables
< #LIB =   $(LIBNAME)
---
> LIB   = $(SHLIB)
> endif
351c374
< 	$(LIB_DIR)/fal.o $(PROGS)
---
>  	$(LIB_DIR)/fal.o $(PROGS)
431a455,457
> ifdef NEED_RANLIB
> 	ranlib $@
> endif
432a459
> ifdef NEED_SHLIB
435a463
> endif
Index: include/midas.h
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/local/cvsroot/midas/include/midas.h,v
retrieving revision 1.126
diff -r1.126 midas.h
464c464
< #if defined(OS_LINUX) || defined(OS_OSF1) || defined(OS_ULTRIX) || defined(OS_FREEBSD) || defined(OS_SOLARIS) || defined(OS_IRIX)
---
> #if defined(OS_LINUX) || defined(OS_OSF1) || defined(OS_ULTRIX) || defined(OS_FREEBSD) || defined(OS_SOLARIS) || defined(OS_IRIX) || defined(OS_DARWIN)
534a535,544
> #endif
> 
> /* need system-dependant thread type */
> #if defined(OS_WINNT)
> typedef HANDLE midas_thread_t;
> #elif defined(OS_UNIX)
> #include <pthread.h>
> typedef pthread_t midas_thread_t;
> #else
> typedef INT midas_thread_t;
Index: include/midasinc.h
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/local/cvsroot/midas/include/midasinc.h,v
retrieving revision 1.11
diff -r1.11 midasinc.h
50a51
> #include <assert.h>
157d157
< #include <sys/mount.h>
163a164,165
> #ifdef OS_DARWIN
> #else
164a167
> #endif
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> #ifdef OS_DARWIN
> #include <util.h>
> #else
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> #endif
Index: include/msystem.h
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/local/cvsroot/midas/include/msystem.h,v
retrieving revision 1.37
diff -r1.37 msystem.h
719,720c719,720
<    INT EXPRT ss_thread_create(INT(*func) (void *), void *param);
<    INT EXPRT ss_thread_kill(INT thread_id);
---
>    midas_thread_t EXPRT ss_thread_create(INT(*func) (void *), void *param);
>    INT EXPRT ss_thread_kill(midas_thread_t thread_id);
721a722
>    INT ss_timezone(void);
Index: src/mhttpd.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/local/cvsroot/midas/src/mhttpd.c,v
retrieving revision 1.262
diff -r1.262 mhttpd.c
6983c6983
<    x_act = (int) floor((double) (xmin - timezone) / label_dx) * label_dx + timezone;
---
>    x_act = (int) floor((double) (xmin - ss_timezone()) / label_dx) * label_dx + ss_timezone();
6995,6996c6995,6996
<          if ((x_act - timezone) % major_dx == 0) {
<             if ((x_act - timezone) % label_dx == 0) {
---
>          if ((x_act - ss_timezone()) % major_dx == 0) {
>             if ((x_act - ss_timezone()) % label_dx == 0) {
Index: src/system.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/local/cvsroot/midas/src/system.c,v
retrieving revision 1.78
diff -r1.78 system.c
306a307,310
> #ifdef OS_UNIX
> #include <sys/mount.h>
> #endif
> 
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<     INT              thread handle
---
>     INT thread handle
914c918
<    return (int) hThread;
---
>    return hThread;
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< thread_id = ss_thread_spawn((void *) taskWatch, &tsWatch);
---
> midas_thread_t thread_id = ss_thread_create((void *) taskWatch, &tsWatch);
1662c1666
< thread_id = ss_thread_spawn((void *) taskWatch, pDevice);
---
> midas_thread_t thread_id = ss_thread_create((void *) taskWatch, pDevice);
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< INT ss_thread_create(INT(*thread_func) (void *), void *param)
---
> midas_thread_t ss_thread_create(INT(*thread_func) (void *), void *param)
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< #ifdef OS_WINNT
---
> #if defined(OS_WINNT)
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< #endif                          /* OS_WINNT */
< #ifdef OS_MSDOS
---
> #elif defined(OS_MSDOS)
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< #endif                          /* OS_MSDOS */
< #ifdef OS_VMS
---
> #elif defined(OS_VMS)
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< #endif                          /* OS_VMS */
---
> #elif defined(OS_VXWORKS)
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< #ifdef OS_VXWORKS
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< #endif                          /* OS_VXWORKS */
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< #ifdef OS_UNIX
---
> #elif defined(OS_UNIX)
> 
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< #endif                          /* OS_UNIX */
---
> 
> #endif
1738c1740
< thread_id = ss_thread_create((void *) taskWatch, pDevice);
---
> midas_thread_t thread_id = ss_thread_create((void *) taskWatch, pDevice);
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< INT ss_thread_kill(INT thread_id)
---
> INT ss_thread_kill(midas_thread_t thread_id)
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< #ifdef OS_WINNT
---
> #if defined(OS_WINNT)
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<    status = TerminateThread((HANDLE) thread_id, 0);
---
>    status = TerminateThread(thread_id, 0);
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< #endif                          /* OS_WINNT */
< #ifdef OS_MSDOS
---
> #elif defined(OS_MSDOS)
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< #endif                          /* OS_MSDOS */
< #ifdef OS_VMS
---
> #elif defined(OS_VMS)
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< #endif                          /* OS_VMS */
---
> #elif defined(OS_VXWORKS)
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< #ifdef OS_VXWORKS
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< 
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< 
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< #endif                          /* OS_VXWORKS */
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< #ifdef OS_UNIX
<    INT status;
< 
<    status = pthread_kill((pthread_t) thread_id, SIGKILL);
---
> #elif defined(OS_UNIX)
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>    INT status;
>    status = pthread_kill(thread_id, SIGKILL);
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< #endif                          /* OS_UNIX */
---
> 
> #endif
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< #ifdef OS_WINNT
---
> #if defined(OS_WINNT)
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< #endif
< #ifdef OS_UNIX
---
> #elif defined(OS_DARWIN)
> 
>    assert(!"ss_settime() is not supported");
>    /* not reached */
>    return SS_NO_DRIVER;
> 
> #elif defined(OS_UNIX)
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< #endif
< #ifdef OS_VXWORKS
---
> #elif defined(OS_VXWORKS)
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> INT ss_timezone()
> /********************************************************************\
> 
>   Routine: ss_timezone
> 
>   Purpose: Returns what?!?
> 
>   Input:
>     none
> 
>   Output:
>     what the heck does it return?!?
> 
>   Function value:
>     INT what is it?!?
> 
> \********************************************************************/
> {
> #ifdef OS_DARWIN
>   return 0;
> #else
>   return timezone; /* on Linux, comes from "#include <time.h>". What is it ?!? */
> #endif
> }
> 
> 
> /*------------------------------------------------------------------*/
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<    INT status;
---
> #if defined(OS_DARWIN)
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< #ifdef OS_UNIX
---
>    return 0;
> 
... 14 more lines ...
  68   14 Jan 2004 Stefan Ritt First try- midas on darwin/macosx
Great, I got already questions about MacOSX support...

Once it's working, you should commit the changes. But take into account that using "//" for 
comments might cause problems for the VxWorks compiler (talk to Pierre about that!).

> A few hard problems:
> - namespace pollution by Apple- they #define ALIGN in system headers, colliding with ALIGN 
> in midas.h. I was amazed that the two are almost identical, but MIDAS ALIGN aligns to 8 
> bytes, while Apple does 4 bytes. ALIGN is used all over the place and I am not sure how to 
> reconcile this.

You can rename ALIGN to ALIGN8 all over the place.

> - "timezone" in mhttpd.c. On linux, it's an "int", on darwin, it's a function. What gives?

Wrap it into a function get_timezone(). Under linux, just return "timezone", under OSX, 
return timezone() via conditional compiling.

> - building libmidas.a requires running ranlib
> - building libmidas.so requires unknown macosx specific magic.

I guess we should foget for now about the shared libraries (Mac people anyhow have too much 
money so they can affort additional RAM (;-) ), but building the static library is mandatory. 
  69   16 Jan 2004 Konstantin Olchanski First try- midas on darwin/macosx
> Great, I got already questions about MacOSX support...
> Once it's working, you should commit the changes.

With the ALIGN8() change ODB works, mhttpd works. ALIGN8 change now commited to cvs, verified that "make all" builds 
on Linux.

ROOT stuff still blows up because of more namespace pollution (/usr/include/sys/something does #define Free(x) 
free(blah...)). Arguably, it is not Apple's fault- portable programs should not include any <sys/foo.h> header files. I 
think I can fix it by moving "#include <sys/mount.h>" from midasinc.h to system.h.

Also figured out why PVM is defined- more pollution from "#include <sys/blah...>". This is only in mana.c and I will 
repace every "#ifdef PVM" with "#ifdef HAVE_PVM". Is there documentation that should be updated as well? Alternatively I 
can try to play games with header files...


> But take into account that using "//" for comments might cause problems for the VxWorks compiler (talk to Pierre 
about that!).

Yes, "// comments" stay out of midas. I used them to make the modification more visible.

> You can rename ALIGN to ALIGN8 all over the place.

Done, commited.

> > - "timezone" in mhttpd.c. On linux, it's an "int", on darwin, it's a function. What gives?
> Wrap it into a function get_timezone(). Under linux, just return "timezone", under OSX, 
> return timezone() via conditional compiling.

Right. Still on the todo list.

> > - building libmidas.a requires running ranlib

I still have to cleanup the Makefile. Not commiting it yet.

Then, a new problem- on MacOSX, pthread_t is not an "INT" and system.c:ss_thread_create() whines about it. I want to 
introduce a system dependant THREAD_T (or whatever) and make ss_thread_create() return that, rather than INT.

ROOT stuff is still not fully tested- it takes a little while to build ROOT on a 600MHz laptop.

Attached is my current CVS diff.

K.O.
Attachment 1: xxx
? .ALARM.SHM
? .ELOG.SHM
? .ODB.SHM
? .SYSMSG.SHM
? darwin
? midas.log
? xx
? xxx
Index: Makefile
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/local/cvsroot/midas/Makefile,v
retrieving revision 1.50
diff -r1.50 Makefile
0a1
> 
218a220,224
> #
> # Uncomment the next line to build the midas shared library
> #
> NEED_SHLIB=1
> 
268a275,290
> # MacOSX/Darwin is just a funny Linux
> #
> ifeq ($(OSTYPE),Darwin)
> OSTYPE = darwin
> endif
> 
> ifeq ($(OSTYPE),darwin)
> OS_DIR = darwin
> OSFLAGS = -DOS_LINUX -DOS_DARWIN -DHAVE_STRLCPY -fPIC -Wno-unused-function
> LIBS = -lpthread
> SPECIFIC_OS_PRG = $(BIN_DIR)/mlxspeaker
> NEED_RANLIB=1
> NEED_SHLIB=
> endif
> 
> #-----------------------
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> LIB    =$(LIBNAME)
> ifdef NEED_SHLIB
342,344c366,367
< LIB =   -lmidas
< # Uncomment this for static linking of midas executables
< #LIB =   $(LIBNAME)
---
> LIB   = $(SHLIB)
> endif
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< 	$(LIB_DIR)/fal.o $(PROGS)
---
>  	$(LIB_DIR)/fal.o $(PROGS)
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> ifdef NEED_RANLIB
> 	ranlib $@
> endif
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> ifdef NEED_SHLIB
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> endif
Index: include/midas.h
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/local/cvsroot/midas/include/midas.h,v
retrieving revision 1.126
diff -r1.126 midas.h
464c464
< #if defined(OS_LINUX) || defined(OS_OSF1) || defined(OS_ULTRIX) || defined(OS_FREEBSD) || defined(OS_SOLARIS) || defined(OS_IRIX)
---
> #if defined(OS_LINUX) || defined(OS_OSF1) || defined(OS_ULTRIX) || defined(OS_FREEBSD) || defined(OS_SOLARIS) || defined(OS_IRIX) || defined(OS_DARWIN)
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> #endif
> 
> /* need system-dependant thread type */
> #if defined(OS_WINNT)
> typedef HANDLE midas_thread_t;
> #elif defined(OS_UNIX)
> #include <pthread.h>
> typedef pthread_t midas_thread_t;
> #else
> typedef INT midas_thread_t;
Index: include/midasinc.h
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/local/cvsroot/midas/include/midasinc.h,v
retrieving revision 1.11
diff -r1.11 midasinc.h
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> #include <assert.h>
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< #include <sys/mount.h>
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> #ifdef OS_DARWIN
> #else
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> #endif
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> #ifdef OS_DARWIN
> #include <util.h>
> #else
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> #endif
Index: include/msystem.h
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/local/cvsroot/midas/include/msystem.h,v
retrieving revision 1.37
diff -r1.37 msystem.h
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<    INT EXPRT ss_thread_create(INT(*func) (void *), void *param);
<    INT EXPRT ss_thread_kill(INT thread_id);
---
>    midas_thread_t EXPRT ss_thread_create(INT(*func) (void *), void *param);
>    INT EXPRT ss_thread_kill(midas_thread_t thread_id);
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>    INT ss_timezone(void);
Index: src/mhttpd.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/local/cvsroot/midas/src/mhttpd.c,v
retrieving revision 1.262
diff -r1.262 mhttpd.c
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<    x_act = (int) floor((double) (xmin - timezone) / label_dx) * label_dx + timezone;
---
>    x_act = (int) floor((double) (xmin - ss_timezone()) / label_dx) * label_dx + ss_timezone();
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<          if ((x_act - timezone) % major_dx == 0) {
<             if ((x_act - timezone) % label_dx == 0) {
---
>          if ((x_act - ss_timezone()) % major_dx == 0) {
>             if ((x_act - ss_timezone()) % label_dx == 0) {
Index: src/system.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/local/cvsroot/midas/src/system.c,v
retrieving revision 1.78
diff -r1.78 system.c
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> #ifdef OS_UNIX
> #include <sys/mount.h>
> #endif
> 
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<     INT              thread handle
---
>     INT thread handle
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<    return (int) hThread;
---
>    return hThread;
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< thread_id = ss_thread_spawn((void *) taskWatch, &tsWatch);
---
> midas_thread_t thread_id = ss_thread_create((void *) taskWatch, &tsWatch);
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< thread_id = ss_thread_spawn((void *) taskWatch, pDevice);
---
> midas_thread_t thread_id = ss_thread_create((void *) taskWatch, pDevice);
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< INT ss_thread_create(INT(*thread_func) (void *), void *param)
---
> midas_thread_t ss_thread_create(INT(*thread_func) (void *), void *param)
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< #ifdef OS_WINNT
---
> #if defined(OS_WINNT)
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< #endif                          /* OS_WINNT */
< #ifdef OS_MSDOS
---
> #elif defined(OS_MSDOS)
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< #endif                          /* OS_MSDOS */
< #ifdef OS_VMS
---
> #elif defined(OS_VMS)
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< #endif                          /* OS_VMS */
---
> #elif defined(OS_VXWORKS)
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< #ifdef OS_VXWORKS
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< #endif                          /* OS_VXWORKS */
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< #ifdef OS_UNIX
---
> #elif defined(OS_UNIX)
> 
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< #endif                          /* OS_UNIX */
---
> 
> #endif
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< thread_id = ss_thread_create((void *) taskWatch, pDevice);
---
> midas_thread_t thread_id = ss_thread_create((void *) taskWatch, pDevice);
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< INT ss_thread_kill(INT thread_id)
---
> INT ss_thread_kill(midas_thread_t thread_id)
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< #ifdef OS_WINNT
---
> #if defined(OS_WINNT)
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<    status = TerminateThread((HANDLE) thread_id, 0);
---
>    status = TerminateThread(thread_id, 0);
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< #endif                          /* OS_WINNT */
< #ifdef OS_MSDOS
---
> #elif defined(OS_MSDOS)
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< #endif                          /* OS_MSDOS */
< #ifdef OS_VMS
---
> #elif defined(OS_VMS)
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< #endif                          /* OS_VMS */
---
> #elif defined(OS_VXWORKS)
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< #ifdef OS_VXWORKS
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< 
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< 
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< #endif                          /* OS_VXWORKS */
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< #ifdef OS_UNIX
<    INT status;
< 
<    status = pthread_kill((pthread_t) thread_id, SIGKILL);
---
> #elif defined(OS_UNIX)
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>    INT status;
>    status = pthread_kill(thread_id, SIGKILL);
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< #endif                          /* OS_UNIX */
---
> 
> #endif
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< #ifdef OS_WINNT
---
> #if defined(OS_WINNT)
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< #endif
< #ifdef OS_UNIX
---
> #elif defined(OS_DARWIN)
> 
>    assert(!"ss_settime() is not supported");
>    /* not reached */
>    return SS_NO_DRIVER;
> 
> #elif defined(OS_UNIX)
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< #endif
< #ifdef OS_VXWORKS
---
> #elif defined(OS_VXWORKS)
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> INT ss_timezone()
> /********************************************************************\
> 
>   Routine: ss_timezone
> 
>   Purpose: Returns what?!?
> 
>   Input:
>     none
> 
>   Output:
>     what the heck does it return?!?
> 
>   Function value:
>     INT what is it?!?
> 
> \********************************************************************/
> {
> #ifdef OS_DARWIN
>   return 0;
> #else
>   return timezone; /* on Linux, comes from "#include <time.h>". What is it ?!? */
> #endif
> }
> 
> 
> /*------------------------------------------------------------------*/
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<    INT status;
---
> #if defined(OS_DARWIN)
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< #ifdef OS_UNIX
---
>    return 0;
> 
... 14 more lines ...
  70   17 Jan 2004 Stefan Ritt First try- midas on darwin/macosx
> With the ALIGN8() change ODB works, mhttpd works. ALIGN8 change now commited to cvs, verified that "make all" builds 
> on Linux.

Verified that "make all" still works under Windows.

> ROOT stuff still blows up because of more namespace pollution (/usr/include/sys/something does #define Free(x) 
> free(blah...)). Arguably, it is not Apple's fault- portable programs should not include any <sys/foo.h> header files. I 
> think I can fix it by moving "#include <sys/mount.h>" from midasinc.h to system.h.

I would like to keep all OS specific #includes in midasinc.h. In worst case put another section there for OSX, like

in midas.h:

#if !defined(OS_MACOSX)
#if defined ( __????__ ) <- put the proper thing here
#define OS_MACOSX
#endif
#endif

then make a new seciton in midasinc.h

#ifdef OS_MACOSX
#include <...>
#endif

> Also figured out why PVM is defined- more pollution from "#include <sys/blah...>". This is only in mana.c and I will 
> repace every "#ifdef PVM" with "#ifdef HAVE_PVM". Is there documentation that should be updated as well? Alternatively I 
> can try to play games with header files...

Right, PVM should be replaced by HAVE_PVM. This is only for the analyzer. I planned at some point to run the analyzer in 
parallel on a linux cluster, but it was never really used. Going to ROOT, that facility should be replaces by PROOF.

> Then, a new problem- on MacOSX, pthread_t is not an "INT" and system.c:ss_thread_create() whines about it. I want to 
> introduce a system dependant THREAD_T (or whatever) and make ss_thread_create() return that, rather than INT.

Good. If you have a OS_MACOSX, that should help you there.

-SR
  71   18 Jan 2004 Konstantin Olchanski First try- midas on darwin/macosx
> I would like to keep all OS specific #includes in midasinc.h

No go. Here is the problem:

midasinc.h includes sys/mount.h, which #defines Free(x) to be something else
mana.c includes msystem.h, which includes midasinc.h
mana.c includes ROOT header files, which blow up because Free(x) is redefined.

I want this:

mana.c does *not* include sys/mount.h
system.c does include sys/mount.h

Simplest solution is to take sys/mount.h out of midasinc.h and include it in system.c

> Right, PVM should be replaced by HAVE_PVM.

Commited.

> > Then, a new problem- on MacOSX, pthread_t is not an "INT" and system.c:ss_thread_create() whines about it. I want to 
> > introduce a system dependant THREAD_T (or whatever) and make ss_thread_create() return that, rather than INT.
> Good. If you have a OS_MACOSX, that should help you there.

Okey. In Darwin, pthread_t is not an int. It is a pointer to a struct. In midas.c I typedef midas_pthread_t to HANDLE on Windows and to pthread_t n OS_UNIX.

This uncovered a problem with ss_getthandle(). What is it supposed to do? On Windows it returns a handle to the current thread, on OS_UNIX, it returns getpid(). 
What gives? I am leaving it alone for now.

Attached is the current diff. Most changes are in system.c: ss_timezone() and midas_pthread_t. The Makefile part is already commited. Building the shared 
library was made dependant on NEED_SHLIB. Now, building static midas applications is very simple, use "make SHLIB="

K.O.
Attachment 1: xxx
? .ALARM.SHM
? .ELOG.SHM
? .ODB.SHM
? .SYSMSG.SHM
? darwin
? midas.log
? xx
? xxx
Index: Makefile
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/local/cvsroot/midas/Makefile,v
retrieving revision 1.50
diff -r1.50 Makefile
0a1
> 
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> #
> # Uncomment the next line to build the midas shared library
> #
> NEED_SHLIB=1
> 
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> # MacOSX/Darwin is just a funny Linux
> #
> ifeq ($(OSTYPE),Darwin)
> OSTYPE = darwin
> endif
> 
> ifeq ($(OSTYPE),darwin)
> OS_DIR = darwin
> OSFLAGS = -DOS_LINUX -DOS_DARWIN -DHAVE_STRLCPY -fPIC -Wno-unused-function
> LIBS = -lpthread
> SPECIFIC_OS_PRG = $(BIN_DIR)/mlxspeaker
> NEED_RANLIB=1
> NEED_SHLIB=
> endif
> 
> #-----------------------
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> LIB    =$(LIBNAME)
> ifdef NEED_SHLIB
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< LIB =   -lmidas
< # Uncomment this for static linking of midas executables
< #LIB =   $(LIBNAME)
---
> LIB   = $(SHLIB)
> endif
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< 	$(LIB_DIR)/fal.o $(PROGS)
---
>  	$(LIB_DIR)/fal.o $(PROGS)
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> ifdef NEED_RANLIB
> 	ranlib $@
> endif
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> ifdef NEED_SHLIB
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> endif
Index: include/midas.h
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/local/cvsroot/midas/include/midas.h,v
retrieving revision 1.126
diff -r1.126 midas.h
464c464
< #if defined(OS_LINUX) || defined(OS_OSF1) || defined(OS_ULTRIX) || defined(OS_FREEBSD) || defined(OS_SOLARIS) || defined(OS_IRIX)
---
> #if defined(OS_LINUX) || defined(OS_OSF1) || defined(OS_ULTRIX) || defined(OS_FREEBSD) || defined(OS_SOLARIS) || defined(OS_IRIX) || defined(OS_DARWIN)
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> #endif
> 
> /* need system-dependant thread type */
> #if defined(OS_WINNT)
> typedef HANDLE midas_thread_t;
> #elif defined(OS_UNIX)
> #include <pthread.h>
> typedef pthread_t midas_thread_t;
> #else
> typedef INT midas_thread_t;
Index: include/midasinc.h
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/local/cvsroot/midas/include/midasinc.h,v
retrieving revision 1.11
diff -r1.11 midasinc.h
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> #include <assert.h>
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< #include <sys/mount.h>
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> #ifdef OS_DARWIN
> #else
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> #endif
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> #ifdef OS_DARWIN
> #include <util.h>
> #else
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> #endif
Index: include/msystem.h
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/local/cvsroot/midas/include/msystem.h,v
retrieving revision 1.37
diff -r1.37 msystem.h
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<    INT EXPRT ss_thread_create(INT(*func) (void *), void *param);
<    INT EXPRT ss_thread_kill(INT thread_id);
---
>    midas_thread_t EXPRT ss_thread_create(INT(*func) (void *), void *param);
>    INT EXPRT ss_thread_kill(midas_thread_t thread_id);
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>    INT ss_timezone(void);
Index: src/mhttpd.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/local/cvsroot/midas/src/mhttpd.c,v
retrieving revision 1.262
diff -r1.262 mhttpd.c
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<    x_act = (int) floor((double) (xmin - timezone) / label_dx) * label_dx + timezone;
---
>    x_act = (int) floor((double) (xmin - ss_timezone()) / label_dx) * label_dx + ss_timezone();
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<          if ((x_act - timezone) % major_dx == 0) {
<             if ((x_act - timezone) % label_dx == 0) {
---
>          if ((x_act - ss_timezone()) % major_dx == 0) {
>             if ((x_act - ss_timezone()) % label_dx == 0) {
Index: src/system.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/local/cvsroot/midas/src/system.c,v
retrieving revision 1.78
diff -r1.78 system.c
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> #ifdef OS_UNIX
> #include <sys/mount.h>
> #endif
> 
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<     INT              thread handle
---
>     INT thread handle
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<    return (int) hThread;
---
>    return hThread;
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< thread_id = ss_thread_spawn((void *) taskWatch, &tsWatch);
---
> midas_thread_t thread_id = ss_thread_create((void *) taskWatch, &tsWatch);
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< thread_id = ss_thread_spawn((void *) taskWatch, pDevice);
---
> midas_thread_t thread_id = ss_thread_create((void *) taskWatch, pDevice);
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< INT ss_thread_create(INT(*thread_func) (void *), void *param)
---
> midas_thread_t ss_thread_create(INT(*thread_func) (void *), void *param)
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< #ifdef OS_WINNT
---
> #if defined(OS_WINNT)
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< #endif                          /* OS_WINNT */
< #ifdef OS_MSDOS
---
> #elif defined(OS_MSDOS)
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< #endif                          /* OS_MSDOS */
< #ifdef OS_VMS
---
> #elif defined(OS_VMS)
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< #endif                          /* OS_VMS */
---
> #elif defined(OS_VXWORKS)
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< #ifdef OS_VXWORKS
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< #endif                          /* OS_VXWORKS */
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< #ifdef OS_UNIX
---
> #elif defined(OS_UNIX)
> 
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< #endif                          /* OS_UNIX */
---
> 
> #endif
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< thread_id = ss_thread_create((void *) taskWatch, pDevice);
---
> midas_thread_t thread_id = ss_thread_create((void *) taskWatch, pDevice);
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< INT ss_thread_kill(INT thread_id)
---
> INT ss_thread_kill(midas_thread_t thread_id)
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< #ifdef OS_WINNT
---
> #if defined(OS_WINNT)
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<    status = TerminateThread((HANDLE) thread_id, 0);
---
>    status = TerminateThread(thread_id, 0);
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< #endif                          /* OS_WINNT */
< #ifdef OS_MSDOS
---
> #elif defined(OS_MSDOS)
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< #endif                          /* OS_MSDOS */
< #ifdef OS_VMS
---
> #elif defined(OS_VMS)
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< #endif                          /* OS_VMS */
---
> #elif defined(OS_VXWORKS)
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< #ifdef OS_VXWORKS
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< 
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< 
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< #endif                          /* OS_VXWORKS */
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< #ifdef OS_UNIX
<    INT status;
< 
<    status = pthread_kill((pthread_t) thread_id, SIGKILL);
---
> #elif defined(OS_UNIX)
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>    INT status;
>    status = pthread_kill(thread_id, SIGKILL);
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< #endif                          /* OS_UNIX */
---
> 
> #endif
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< #ifdef OS_WINNT
---
> #if defined(OS_WINNT)
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< #endif
< #ifdef OS_UNIX
---
> #elif defined(OS_DARWIN)
> 
>    assert(!"ss_settime() is not supported");
>    /* not reached */
>    return SS_NO_DRIVER;
> 
> #elif defined(OS_UNIX)
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< #endif
< #ifdef OS_VXWORKS
---
> #elif defined(OS_VXWORKS)
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> INT ss_timezone()
> /********************************************************************\
> 
>   Routine: ss_timezone
> 
>   Purpose: Returns what?!?
> 
>   Input:
>     none
> 
>   Output:
>     what the heck does it return?!?
> 
>   Function value:
>     INT what is it?!?
> 
> \********************************************************************/
> {
> #ifdef OS_DARWIN
>   return 0;
> #else
>   return timezone; /* on Linux, comes from "#include <time.h>". What is it ?!? */
> #endif
> }
> 
> 
> /*------------------------------------------------------------------*/
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<    INT status;
---
> #if defined(OS_DARWIN)
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< #ifdef OS_UNIX
---
>    return 0;
> 
... 14 more lines ...
  72   19 Jan 2004 Stefan Ritt First try- midas on darwin/macosx
> I want this:
> 
> mana.c does *not* include sys/mount.h
> system.c does include sys/mount.h
> 
> Simplest solution is to take sys/mount.h out of midasinc.h and include it in system.c

Agree.

> This uncovered a problem with ss_getthandle(). What is it supposed to do? On Windows it returns a handle to the current thread, on OS_UNIX, it returns getpid(). 
> What gives? I am leaving it alone for now.

The Unix version of ss_getthandle() returns the pid since at the time when I wrote that function (many years ago) there were no threads under Unix. It should now 
be replaces with a function which returns the real thread id (at least under Linux).
  73   19 Jan 2004 Konstantin Olchanski First try- midas on darwin/macosx
> > Simplest solution is to take sys/mount.h out of midasinc.h and include it in system.c
> Agree.

Done.

With this, I commited the rest of my changes: midas_thread_t in midas.h, change ss_thread_xxx() prototypes in msystem.h
, implementation in system.c

My cvs diff is now empty.

Midas should compile on Darwin aka macosx, I tested "odbedit" and "mhttpd"- they seem to work.
 
> > This uncovered a problem with ss_getthandle(). 
> The Unix version of ss_getthandle() returns the pid since at the time when I wrote that function (many years ago) there were no threads under Unix. It should now 
> be replaces with a function which returns the real thread id (at least under Linux).

I do not want to touch this. Sorry.

K.O.
  74   15 Dec 2003 Stefan Ritt Poll about default indent style
Dear all,

there are continuing requests about the C indent style we use in midas. As 
you know, the current style does not comply with any standard. It is even 
a mixture of styles since code comes from different people. To fix this 
once and forever, I am considering using the "indent" program which comes 
with every linux installation. Running indent regularly on all our code 
ensures a consistent look. So I propose (actually the idea came from Paul 
Knowles) to put a new section in the midas makefile:

indent:
        find . -name "*.[hc]" -exec indent <flags> {} \;

so one can easily do a "make indent". The question is now how the <flags> 
should look like. The standard is GNU style, but this deviates from the 
original K&R style such that the opening "{" is put on a new line, which I 
use but most of you do not. The "-kr" style does the standard K&R style, 
but used tabs (which is not good), and does a 4-column indention which is 
I think too much. So I would propose following flags:

indent -kr -nut -i2 -di8 -bad <filename.c>

Please take some of your source code, and format it this way, and let me 
know if these flags are a good combination or if you would like to have 
anything changed. It should also be checked (->PAA) that this style 
complies with the DOC++ system. Once we all agree, I can put it into the 
makefile, execute it and commit the newly formatted code for the whole 
source tree.
  75   18 Dec 2003 Paul Knowles Poll about default indent style
Hi Stefan,

> once and forever, I am considering using the "indent" program which comes 
> with every linux installation. Running indent regularly on all our code 
> ensures a consistent look.

I think this can be called a Good Thing.

> The "-kr" style does the standard K&R style, 
> but used tabs (which is not good), and does a 4-column 
> indention which is I think too much. So I would propose 
> following flags:
>        indent -kr -nut -i2 -di8 -bad <filename.c>

(some of this is a repeat from an earlier mail to SR):
You might also want a -l90 for a longer line length than 75
characters.  K&R style with indentation from 5 to 8 spaces
is a good indicator of complexity: as soon as 40 characters
of code wind up unreadably squashed to the right of the
screen, you have to refactor to have less indentation
levels.  This means you wind up rolling up the inner parts
of deeply nested conditionals or loops as separate
functions, making the whole code easier to understand.

I think that setting -i2 is ``going around the problem'' 
of deep nesting.  If you really need to keep the indentation 
tabs less than 4 (8 is ideal) because your code is falling off the 
right edge of the screen, you are indented too deeply.  Why do 
I say that?  There is the famous ``7+-1'' idea that you can hold
in you head only 7 ideas (give or take one) at any time.  I'm not 
that smart and I top out at about 5:  So for example, a conditional 
in a loop  in a conditional in a switch is about as deep a level 
of nesting as  I can easily understand (remember that I also have 
to hold the line i'm working on as well): that's 4 levels, plus one for the
function itself and we are at 40 characters away from the right edge
of the screen using -i8 and have some 40 characters available for writing code
(how often is a line of code really longer than about 40 characters?).
On top of that, the indentation is easily seen so you know immediately 
wheather you are at the upper conditional, or inner conditional.  A -i2
just doesn't make the difference big enough.  -i5 is a happy balance 
with enough visual clue as to the indentation level, but leaves you 50
to 60 characters for the code line itself.

However, if you are indenting very deeply, then the poor reader can't hold
on to the context: there are more than 6 or 7 things to keep in mind.
In those cases, roll up the inner levels as a separate function and 
call it that way. The inner complexity of the nested statements gets 
nicely abstracted and then dumb people like me can understand what 
you are doing.

So, in brief: indent is a good idea, and -in with n>=4 will be best.
I don't think -i2 will lend itself to making the code so much easier 
to read.

thanks for listening.
.p.
  76   18 Dec 2003 Stefan Ritt Poll about default indent style
Hi Paul,

I agree with you that a nesting level of more than 4-5 is a bad thing, but I 
believe that throughout the midas code, this level is not exceeded (my poor 
mind also does not hold more than 5 things (;-) ). An indent level of 8 columns 
alone does hot force you too much in not extending the nesting level. I have 
seen code which does that, so there are nesting levels of 8 and more, which 
ends up that the code is smashed to the right side of the screen, where each 
statement is broken into many line since each line only holds 10 or 20 
characters. All the nice real estate on the left side of the scree is lost.

So having said that, I don't feel a strong need of giving up a "-i2", since the 
midas code does not contain deep nesting levels and hopefully will never have. 
In my opinion, a small indent level makes more use of your screen space, since 
you do not have a large white area at the left. A typical nesting level is 3-4, 
which causes already 32 blank charactes at the left, or 1/3 of your screen, 
just for nothing. It will lead to more lines (even with -l90), so people have 
to scroll more.

What do others think (Pierre, Konstantin, Renee) ?
  77   01 Jan 2004 Konstantin Olchanski Poll about default indent style
> I don't feel a strong need of giving up a "-i2"...

I am comfortable with the current MIDAS styling convention and I would rather not
have yet another private religious war over the right location for the curley braces.

If we are to consider changing the MIDAS coding convention, I urge all and sundry
to read the ROOT coding convention, as written by Rene Brun and Fons Rademakers at
http://root.cern.ch/root/Conventions.html. The ROOT people did their homework, they
did read the literature and they produced a well considered and well argumented style.

Also, while there, do read the Taligent documentation- by far, one of the most
coherent manuals to C++ programming style.

K.O.
  78   06 Jan 2004 Stefan Ritt Poll about default indent style
Ok, taking all comments so far into account, I conclude adopting the ROOT 
coding style would be best for us. So I put

indent:
	find . -name "*.[hc]" -exec indent -kr -nut -i3 {} \;

Into the makefile. Hope everybody is happy now (;-)))
  79   12 Dec 2003 Stefan Ritt Several small fixes and changes
I committed several small fixes and changes:

- install.txt which mentions explicitly ROOT
- mana.c and the main Makefile which fixes all HBOOK compiler warnings
- mana.c to write an explicit warning if the experiment directoy contains 
uppercase letters in the path (HBOOK does not like this and refuses to 
read/write histos)
- mserver.c, mrpc.c, odb.c to fix a wrong parameter in 
db_remove_open_record() (see previous entry from Paul)
- added experim.h into the dependency of the hbookexpt Makefile
  80   09 Dec 2003 Paul Knowles db_close_record non-local/non-return
Hi All,

I have found a weird one:

The following code executes on the frontend machine in the
frontend_exit() routine, and connects to the odb running on
another separate machine:
...
     cm_msg(MINFO,__func__, "line %d", __LINE__);

     cm_get_experiment_database(&hdb, NULL);

     cm_msg(MINFO,__func__, "line %d", __LINE__);
     status = db_find_key(hdb, 0, "/Experiment/Run Parameters", &hkey);
     cm_msg(MINFO,__func__, "line %d, hkey=%d, status=%d",
            __LINE__, hkey, status);
     checkstat("db_find_key returned status %d", status);
     cm_msg(MINFO,__func__, "line %d", __LINE__);
     status = db_close_record(hdb, hkey);

     /* NOTREACHED!! the above call to db_close_record
        doesn't return!
      */
     cm_msg(MINFO,__func__, "line %d, status=%d", __LINE__, status);
     checkstat("db_close_record returned status %d", status);

checkstat is a macro that does the following:
#define checkstat(format, arg...)\
do{ if(status != DB_SUCCESS) {\
cm_msg(MERROR, __func__, format, ## arg);\
return FE_ERR_ODB;}}while(0)

The key exists, and the status of the search is 1
(i.e., DB_SUCCESS) and rest of the code tries to run.  What gets
really weird is that the db_close_record _doesn't_ _return_.
The code following the NOTREACHED comment just doesn't get
called.  I get the message from the __LINE__ just in front
of the call, but not the message afterwards (cm_msg and printf 
were tried).  Somehow db_close_record is causing a non-local 
exit or signal or something. No error message is printed and the 
frontend continues to exit with exit code 0.  But, since the rest
of my frontend_exit/odb closing doesn't happen, the odb is left in
a lost state requiring a cleanup.  If I comment out the calls to 
db_close_record, the rest of my frontend_exit runs normally 
and the cm_disconnect_experiment() in mfe.c eventually closes my 
open records correctly (I expect, anyway) and this is the present 
workaround i am using.  The terror i have is that several of my 
hotlinked callback routines will call the close_record routine 
when resetting illegal values.  No end of hilarity will result there...

I was using the same code in the frontend under 1.9.2 and
have only recently upgraded to 1.9.3-? tarball from PAA and 
there were no problems using the 1.9.2 code: this is a 1.9.3
issue.

I have localized the weirdness to what I think is the RPC interface.
Running the nullfrontend (no camac access) on the same machine as 
hosts the ODB I can make the problem appear and disappear in the 
following way:
(odb is local on machine ``monet'')

nullfe -h monet -e acqmonad     : db_close_record will get lost

nullfe -e acqmonad              : db_close_record works as expected.

I've tried also with the patch for the 256 byte odb string bug since
many of the open records have strings of that length, but that isn't
it. The only substancial looking change to mserver from 1.9.2 to 1.9.3
is the SIGPIPE ignore and that doesn't look like a good candidate either.
Can this be that some of the 
   #IFDEF LOCAL_ROUTINES
that got moved about in odb.c and others
are causing the remote call to get confused?

Clearly the answer is to just use stable and happy 1.9.2, but the 
people for whom I am working now really want to use ROOT for
an analyzer...


cheers,
.p.

Paul Knowles.                   phone: 41 26 300 90 64
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