C++ Code to Access Linux Hard Disk Sectors (with a LoopBack Virtual Hard Disk)
Hi all,
I'm kind of new to programming in Linux & c/c++. I'm currently writing a FileManager using Ubuntu Linux(10.10) for Learning Purposes. I've got started on this project by creating a loopback device to be used as my virtual hard disk. After creating the loop back hard disk and mounting it has the following configuration.
Now what I want to do is develop a c++ program to read & write files to this loop back device,which I'm using to simulate an actual hard disk,at the blocks & sectors level. So far I've come up with the following code. But I'm still unable to read files from the hard disk one block at a time.
When I run this Program All what I get is the message for NULL.
"Error In Opening the HardDisk File Retuning Error...".
Could you please help me by pointing what am I doing wrong here ?. So I could open the loopback device as a file an access it at the sectors & block level.
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set_tid_address
SET_TID_ADDRESS(2) Linux Programmer's Manual SET_TID_ADDRESS(2)NAME
set_tid_address - set pointer to thread ID
SYNOPSIS
#include <linux/unistd.h>
long set_tid_address(int *tidptr);
DESCRIPTION
For each process, the kernel maintains two attributes (addresses) called set_child_tid and clear_child_tid. These two attributes contain
the value NULL by default.
set_child_tid
If a process is started using clone(2) with the CLONE_CHILD_SETTID flag, set_child_tid is set to the value passed in the ctid argu-
ment of that system call.
When set_child_tid is set, the very first thing the new process does is writing its PID at this address.
clear_child_tid
If a process is started using clone(2) with the CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID flag, clear_child_tid is set to the value passed in the ctid
argument of that system call.
The system call set_tid_address() sets the clear_child_tid value for the calling process to tidptr.
When a process whose clear_child_tid is not NULL terminates, then, if the process is sharing memory with other processes or threads, then 0
is written at the address specified in clear_child_tid and the kernel performs the following operation:
futex(clear_child_tid, FUTEX_WAKE, 1, NULL, NULL, 0);
The effect of this operation is to wake a single process that is performing a futex wait on the memory location. Errors from the futex
wake operation are ignored.
RETURN VALUE
set_tid_address() always returns the PID of the calling process.
ERRORS
set_tid_address() always succeeds.
VERSIONS
This call is present since Linux 2.5.48. Details as given here are valid since Linux 2.5.49.
CONFORMING TO
This system call is Linux-specific.
SEE ALSO clone(2), futex(2)COLOPHON
This page is part of release 3.44 of the Linux man-pages project. A description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can
be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.
Linux 2012-07-19 SET_TID_ADDRESS(2)