[cs631apue] hw4 questions.

[afonsec1]

On Mon, 14 Nov 2011 11:20:09 -0500, afonsec1 wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Nov 2011 10:45:44 -0500, Jan Schaumann wrote:
>> afonsec1 <afonsec1 at stevens.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>> Can we have/allow a port number zero giving by the user?
>>
>> It'd probably be good to restrict this.  Zero is, technically, a 
>> valid
>> port, but its seen various uses over time / different OS.
>>
>>> When writing for the first time into the log file,  should truncate 
>>> or
>>> append for each session?
>>
>> If the manual page does not specify this, then this is up to you.
>>
>> Think about what would be desirable from the user's point of view.  
>> What
>> would make sense from the principle of least surprise?
>>
>>> If we are in debug mode but log file is giving, should we ignore 
>>> the log
>>> file name? or throw an error?
>>
>> This is up to you - again, think about what makes the most sense.
>>
>>> For printing usage (-h),  should always send to stdout or stderr?
>>
>> Note that it may be reasonable to have it go either way, depending 
>> on
>> the reason you're printing the usage:
>>
>> If the user explicitly asks for the usage by passing '-h', then 
>> stdout
>> would make sense.  If the user provides illegal options, then stderr
>> would make sense.
>>
>> See what other standard unix tools do and make your own choice.
>>
>>> For logging request, since we haven't implemented response, I 
>>> cannot log
>>> the status of the request and the size of the response?, Should I 
>>> skip
>>> them?
>>
>> You don't need to implement logging as part of HW#4.  That would 
>> make
>> more sense to be included in the final project.
>>
>> -Jan
>
>
> Professor,
>
> If we are in debug mode and therefore not daemonize, should we still
> support signal handling? should we do a restart for signal handling?
>
> From my understanding, when we go daemon, we close all file
> descriptor for the giving process, so if we passed a log file name, 
> we
> have to open a descriptor to that file?
>
> Since we close the stderr fd on daemon mode too, should we log the
> fatal messages (messages about reasons for terminating the program) 
> on
> the syslog? or just terminate without logging the event?
>
> I didn't specify the ai_family, so the way that I get address info is
> agnostic. Hence it really doesn't matter whether the address passed 
> on
> the (-i) option is ipv6, or ipv4, it will recognize it dynamically.
> Are you okay with this? or do you want us to hard-code the address
> family?
>
> Armando.