C++ :: Restore Keyboard Stdin After Reading From Pipe?
Apr 25, 2014
I use the following code segment to read and output the text piped to a program. If there is no piped text, the code segment is skipped and then the program continues. What I need to do is restore stdin to the keyboard after reading from the pipe. I use the PeekNamedPipe() and ReadFile() because reading from stdin blocks until it has something, and I don't want that to happen. After reading from the pipe, the program begins to execute, and the main loop can be paused and it prompts for a command. I just can't figure out how to restore input to the keyboard. Obviously the platform is Windows.
I am aiming to read an integer from stdin(pointed to the uart) and echo it with the uart interrupt service routine. there is a simple retarget file along with the main code shown below. So far i can read chars (char x[32] but i am struggling with int.
I have gathered that i need to use the scanf function to read an int from the pointer defined in fgets.
My output is giving me weird values, i enter 8 and ill get a random 3 digits back. I have a feeling its a problem with the input buffer.
I thought maybe there was something in C that could read full sentences from stdin
Code: scanf("%100[^ ]s", string);
But that's not working for me. so i came up with my own function and its not giving me the results i want. here is the function including the call from main:
Code: /* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * FROM MAIN * * * * * * * * * * * * * * */ printf(" Adding a new part... "); printf("Enter part name: "); get_string(new_part.pname);
Where is the eight coming from? i thought fpurge clear the buffer. Also, I'm trying to add spaces in between words... i thought maybe putting within the while loop but outside of the if statement string[length +1] = '' would work, but it doesn't. so i put it outside of the loop but that i knew that wouldnt work either.
Problem #2 is reading from a file.. so far i have the following code which reads everything perfectly except the .txt file has a new line character at the end and i think its reading it:
0 in stock i want it to stop after reading the ball bearings line. a lot of issues for one post, but all related to reading inputs so i put it all on one.
My 'c' program reads each line of a .txt file, makes a few changes and then outputs the line of text (which are names). I want the contents to be sorted and did not want to bother writing my own sort. The program runs in a command prompt from inside a batch file for example:
I have this if block that is supposed to be creating a pipe then forking and I would like to combine the while loop below it with it. How would I do that?
p = pipe(pipe1); if (p < 0) { printf("pipe error"); exit(0); } else { printf("successful pipe1 = %d",p);
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I have trying to read this documentation but don't understand it. [URL] ....
I have study that create a pipe and set a terminal of this pipe like a stdout of a process is a way to implement inter process comunication, but how can i do it in c++?
Im writing a scientific software where I like to sent a 2D array (5x4) over a named pipe from a server to a client. When im sending a static array (i.e., double res[5][4];), all goes fine and it works perfect, but when I allocate a dynamic array, it provides some nonsense numbers at the client side. I feel it might be caused because I point to a memory that cannot be shared through a pipe. Am I right and how can I pass the dynamic allocated array itself over the pipe.
//Server program
// Create a pipe to send/receive data HANDLE pipe = CreateNamedPipe( "\.pipemy_pipe", // name of the pipe PIPE_ACCESS_DUPLEX, // 2-way pipe -- send and read PIPE_TYPE_BYTE, // send data as a byte stream 1, // only allow 1 instance of this pipe 0, // no outbound buffer
I'm learning internet sockets right now and to that end I've made a simple client/server chat program centered around select(). I've got it to where multiple messages can be sent and received on either side and the "prompt" will move down 1 line each time accordingly.
My only sticking point is when someone is in the middle of typing a message and a new message is received. The message they are currently typing is going to be deleted, so they'll have to start over again. What I want to do is grab the current contents of the stdin buffer (meaning, there's no ), save it, print the received message and move the prompt downward as usual, and then put that saved message back into the buffer, meaning not only is it back on the screen now, it's erasable too as if nothing ever happened.
I know that this will definitely be some very very non-standard C, and that's fine. To that end, I've read that curses, GNU readline, and termios are possibilities for this. I've tried those, but am having trouble making it work.
This will be a moot point when I put a GUI on it soon (probably wx, but maybe Qt) since it won't even be an issue, but I'm determined to make this work. Both systems (the "client" and the "server") are Linux, one being Ubuntu and one being Debian.
Code: #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #define MAX_READ 2 int main( ) { char * secret = "abecedarium consisting This is a string literal!";
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I am trying to test what happens in the sscanf converted types (command and string) if they are smaller, i got surprised that the printf worked, so i dont know why.
this code is just a test for what i want to do, what i really want to do is for example: i have this string from the stdin which must have the following format:
connect name.surname
So I need to check the cases when it is not the input that i want, namely if the name.surname is for example bigger than 30 chars. and also if it has the abecedary characters from the ascii...
I'm trying to write to a named pipe created by a service, as we all know the session 0 isolation implemented in vista and forward makes this task a bit complicated.
well at this point i managed to make almost all to work but my real problem comes when i try to write on the named pipe from my GUI application with no administrator rights
If i run the GUI application with admin rights it works 100% but, I don't need that application to require the user admin rights and for security reasons i rather to leave it without admin...
so i started my research and i found that there is a way to achieve this by calling CreateNamedPipe() with a low integrity security attributes...
well how to implement but i finally made it, the problem is that it gets worse than passing null security attributes, it works with admin rights with NULL security attributes, but when i pass the low integrity security attributes it gives "access denied" even when using admin rights, so i guess im passing the wrong security attributes but how to manually create the security descriptor string.
Is it possible to create a dynamic char array on the fly directly from stdin? I do not want to create a fixed length array before hand and then copy contents of it into a malloc created array.
Code: //[1] char line[MAX1]; gets(line);
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I could do either [1](buffer overflow problem) or [2] and then goto [3]. But both will have a problem if the input is more than the size MAX1(use defined).
Is it possible to do something of the effect of readLine() method of BufferedReader class in Java or the Console.readLine in .NET? Is it possible to peek into stdin and see the size of the input and then creat an array of the same exact size?
I want to read a string of unknown length from stdin. I tried to follow the approach from this link. URL....My code is like this:
#include <iostream> #include <string> using namespace std; int n; cin >> n; cout << "The value of n is " << n << endl; }
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What I have noticed is that if I take integer input from cin (cin >> n;) in the above code before getline, the control does not stop on getline to take str as input from the console. If I don't do (cin >> n) before getline then the control stops on getline and takes the string as input.What is the best way to read from console multiple strings of unknown length in combination with the integers?
I have a pre-declared array which sorts strings to it's alphabetic order and want to change it so it reads from stdin.
char *array[] = {"aaa", "ccc", "bbb", "ddd"}
I tried doing something like this:
for (i = 0; i < length; i++) scanf("%s", &array[i]);
I just can't bring it to work. Another thing is, the input is a a bunch of strings separated by commas and ends with a period. Since I have to make a working C model which gets translated to assembly language later on I can't use functions like strtok.
I have to optimize a code for below scenario. I am reading stdin (a file redirected to stdin) character by character. How many chars are going to come is not known. After every few chars there is a seaparator. e.g $ as below
rhhrkkj$hghjhdf$ddfkrjt
While reading, if the separator arrives I'm processing the string stored before that separator and then continue reading stdin in same fashion, till EOF. I am using getc(stdin) to read chars.
Using gprof I can see most of the program time is spent inside main() , for this reading logic. Rest of the program is just some insert and search operations. I am getting time of 0.01 secs at the moment, want to reduce further.
I need to run some operation if a key from keyboard is pressed. so I go with
Code: c=getchar();
to get it read. yet the user could press a key anytime; so I'd need some if-loop. no plans on how it'd look like though...I suppose something like this below wouldn't work right?
how can I allow pressing some keys on the keyboard in C++? I mean, when you are in the console and you are only allowed to press numbers before pressing enter, for example.
I am trying to get my keyboard input into a function, so that I can call a function like updatebuttons() and set global variables to 0 if the button is not down at the moment and 1 if it is. It seems simple, but I can't seem to get it to work right; I am not use to working outside of windows, so I am still a beginner with SDL.
