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Here are some tools that you might find useful while developing code.
Tags are an index to the functions and global variables declared in a
program. Many editors, including Emacs and vi
, can use
them. The Makefile
in pintos/src
produces Emacs-style
tags with the command make TAGS
or vi
-style tags with
make tags
.
In Emacs, use M-. to follow a tag in the current window, C-x 4 . in a new window, or C-x 5 . in a new frame. If your cursor is on a symbol name for any of those commands, it becomes the default target. If a tag name has multiple definitions, M-0 M-. jumps to the next one. To jump back to where you were before you followed the last tag, use M-*.
The cscope
program also provides an index to functions and
variables declared in a program. It has some features that tag
facilities lack. Most notably, it can find all the points in a
program at which a given function is called.
The Makefile
in pintos/src
produces cscope
indexes when it is invoked as make cscope
. Once the index has
been generated, run cscope
from a shell command line; no
command-line arguments are normally necessary. Then use the arrow
keys to choose one of the search criteria listed near the bottom of
the terminal, type in an identifier, and hit Enter.
cscope
will then display the matches in the upper part of
the terminal. You may use the arrow keys to choose a particular
match; if you then hit Enter, cscope
will invoke the
default system editor(8) and position the
cursor on that match. To start a new search, type Tab. To exit
cscope
, type Ctrl-d.
Emacs and some versions of vi
have their own interfaces to
cscope
. For information on how to use these interface,
visit http://cscope.sourceforge.net, the cscope
home
page.
CVS is a version-control system. That is, you can use it to keep track of multiple versions of files. The idea is that you do some work on your code and test it, then check it into the version-control system. If you decide that the work you've done since your last check-in is no good, you can easily revert to the last checked-in version. Furthermore, you can retrieve any old version of your code as of some given day and time. The version control logs tell you who made changes and when.
CVS is not the best version control system out there, but it's free, it's fairly easy to use, and it's already installed in most Unix-like environments.
For more information, visit the CVS home page.
To set up CVS for use with Pintos, start by choosing one group member as the keeper of the CVS repository. Everyone in the group will be able to use the CVS repository, but the keeper will actually create the repository and maintain permissions for its contents.
If you are using an IDE, check whether it supports CVS automatically.
Some of the CVS commands require you to specify the location of the repository. As the
repository has been set up in the machine 'ap2.cs.vt.edu' and you would not be using this
machine for development purposes, you have to use
:ext:your_pid@ap2:/shared/cs3204/Proj-keeper_pid
as the location of
the repository. your_pid is your pid and is needed to log you on to 'ap2.cs.vt.edu'.
CVS runs on top of ssh. Therefore,
before using any of the CVS commands, make sure you have configured ssh to log you on without prompting for password
(See section F.3.4 Setting Up ssh, for more information) and set the environment variable CVS_RSH to /usr/bin/ssh
.
Under csh you can set this
environment variable using setenv CVS_RSH /usr/bin/ssh
. To avoid having to type this
line everytime you log on, add this line to the '.cshrc' file in your home directory.
To use CVS, start by checking out a working copy of the contents of the
CVS repository into a directory named dir
. To do so, execute
cvs -d :ext:your_pid@ap2:/shared/cs3204/Proj-keeper_pid checkout -d dir pintos
.
If this fails due to some kind of permission problem, the CVS
repository may not be initialized properly.
Note that there are two -d
switches in the previous command. The first switch specifies
the location of the CVS repository to which the command applies. In this case,
the repository is located on the machine ap2 and is reachable via ssh with your_pid.
The second -d
switch is specific to the cvs checkout command. It specifies
the local directory into which to check out the module 'pintos'. If omitted, pintos
will be checked out into a directory called 'pintos'.
Your working copy is kept in your undergrad file space. Unlike the CVS repository,
this directory is shared among the lab machines, so you do not need to be logged on
to any specific machine to use it.
Like the CVS repository, you must read-protect your working copy from
(Unix-) group members and others to comply with the honor code.
chmod -R go-rwx dir
will read-protect your working directory.
At this point, you can modify any of the files in the working copy.
You can see the changes you've made with cvs diff -u
. If you
want to commit these changes back to the repository, making them
visible to the other group members, you can use the CVS commit
command. Within the pintos
directory, execute cvs
commit
. This will figure out the files that have been changed and
fire up a text editor for you to describe the changes. By default,
this editor is vi
, but you can select a different editor by
setting the CVSEDITOR
environment variable, e.g. with
setenv CVSEDITOR emacs
(add this line to your .cshrc
to
make it permanent).
Suppose another group member has committed changes. You can see the
changes committed to the repository since the time you checked it out
(or updated from it) with cvs diff -u -r BASE -r HEAD
. You can
merge those change into your working copy using cvs update
. If
any of your local changes conflict with the committed changes, the CVS
command output should tell you. In that case, edit the files that
contain conflicts, looking for <<<
and >>>
that denote
the conflicts, and fix the problem.
You can view the history of file in your working directory,
including the log messages, with cvs log file
.
You can give a particular set of file versions a name called a
tag. First cd
to the root of the working copy, then
execute cvs tag name
. It's best to have no local changes
in the working copy when you do this, because the tag will not include
uncommitted changes. To recover the tagged repository later, use the
checkout
command in the form
cvs -d :ext:your_pid@ap2:/shared/cs3204/Proj-keeper_pid checkout -r tag -d dir pintos
,
where dir is the directory to put the tagged repository into.
If you add a new file to the source tree, you'll need to add it to the
repository with cvs add file
. This command does not have
lasting effect until the file is committed later with cvs
commit
.
To remove a file from the source tree, first remove it from the file
system with rm
, then tell CVS with cvs remove
file
. Again, only cvs commit
will make the change
permanent.
To discard your local changes for a given file, without committing
them, use cvs update -C file
.
To check out a version of your repository as of a particular date, use
the command
cvs -d :ext:your_pid@ap2:/shared/cs3204/Proj-keeper_pid checkout -D 'date' -d dir pintos
,
where dir is the directory to put the tagged repository into. A typical format for
date is YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM
, but CVS accepts several formats,
even something like 1 hour ago
.
For more information, visit the CVS home page.
If you are using an IDE, check whether it supports CVS automatically.
You might occasionally see a message like this while using CVS:
waiting for member_pid's lock in /shared/cs3204/Proj-keeper_pid/cvsroot/foo |
This normally means that more than one user is accessing the repository at the same time. CVS should automatically retry after 30 seconds, at which time the operation should normally be able to continue.
If you encounter a long wait for a lock, of more than a minute or so, it
may indicate that a CVS command did not complete properly and failed to
remove its locks. If you think that this is the case, ask the user in
question about it. If it appears that an operation did go awry, then
you (or the named user) can delete files whose names start with
#cvs.rfl
, #cvs.wfl
, or #cvs.lock
in the directory
mentioned in the message. Doing so should allow your operation to
proceed. Do not delete or modify other files.
Ssh can be configured to log you on to any of the Remote Linux Cluster machines from any machine, without you having to enter your password. To enable automatic login, perform the following steps after logging on to any of the rlogin machines.
ssh-keygen -t rsa -N ""On your screen you should see something similar to what is shown below.
Generating public/private rsa key pair. Enter file in which to save the key (/home/ugrads/your_pid/.ssh/id_rsa): Your identification has been saved in /home/ugrads/your_pid/.ssh/id_rsa. Your public key has been saved in /home/ugrads/your_pid/.ssh/id_rsa.pub. The key fingerprint is: 34:45:6d:4a:51:4e:1f:af:fe:66:dd:a9:a5:23:46:bb your_pid@some_machine.cslab |
id_rsa.pubin the directory
$HOME/.sshif the default location is chosen.
cd $HOME/.ssh
cat id_rsa.pub >> authorized_keys
cd $HOME
chmod 700 .ssh
To make sure that you have configured it correctly, try ssh'ing to another machine in the Remote Login Linux Cluster (rlogin).
You should not be prompted for your password. If it is the first time
you are ssh'ing to some machine, you might have to type yes
to continue connecting.
VNC stands for Virtual Network Computing. It is, in essence, a remote display system which allows you to view a computing "desktop" environment not only on the machine where it is running, but from anywhere on the Internet and from a wide variety of machine architectures. It is already installed on the lab machines. For more information, look at the VNC Home Page.
Cygwin provides a Linux-compatible environment for Windows. It includes ssh client and an X11 server, Cygwin/X. If your primary work environment is Windows, you will find Cygwin/X extremely useful for these projects. Install Cygwin/X, then start the X server and open a new xterm. The X11 server also allows you to run pintos while displaying the bochs- or qemu-emulated console on your Windows desktop.
In addition, you can set up Cygwin's ssh client for password-less login as described earlier. See section F.3.4 Setting Up ssh.
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