Thread: Two C Questions Help?

How do you populate a file with with five zeros going vertically? and

How do you print out the file's inode number and size in bytes one the above has been created?

This is the first stage of a darts program. The first file would contain zero's 5 of them becasue there are 5 players. The thing is, I don't know how to do it. below is my tried attempt sort of:

for (i=5; i<scores; i++)
write(fd, &scores, sizeof (int));

also how do i do the i node number i have no idea about this?

the rest of my coding which so far does, accepts the filename from command line and create the file with read and write for owner.

Code:

#include<stdio.h>
#include<string.h>
#include<errno.h>

int main (int argc, char *argv[])

     int scores;

     if (argc !=2) {
       printf("Usage: %s scores\n", argv[0]);
       exit(1);

       fd = open("scorefile", 0_RDWR | 0_CREAT, 0600);
       if (fd<0) {
	 perror("cannot open file score");
	 exit(2);

Originally Posted by The_Lone_Wolf

How do you populate a file with with five zeros going vertically? and

How do you print out the file's inode number and size in bytes one the above has been created?

for (i=5; i<scores; i++)
write(fd, &scores, sizeof (int));

By using the write function (and open) below, you are actually not using standard C functions, though they will be widely implemented.

Anyway, your code has issues:

- if you want to do 5 zeroes, why are you trying to write the value of "scores"?
- Why is it in the for loop? Try:

Code:

for (i = 0; i < 5; i++)

- I assume you want to create a text file, and have the scores human readable, in which case you could either use fprintf, or use write() to send a string that's been built with something like snprintf().

also how do i do the i node number i have no idea about this?

Standard C has no concept of inodes. Look up the posix functions stat and fstat.

Code:

#include<stdio.h>
#include<string.h>
#include<errno.h>

int main (int argc, char *argv[])

     int scores;

     if (argc !=2) {
       printf("Usage: %s scores\n", argv[0]);
       exit(1);

       fd = open("scorefile", 0_RDWR | 0_CREAT, 0600);
       if (fd<0) {
	 perror("cannot open file score");
	 exit(2);

All your code here is within the if (argc != 2) block, so if there is not 1 parameter, it will print the usage and exit. If there is one parameter, it will skip the whole code you pasted and go onto whatever else there is.