tried to compace same file

You are either joking, or in desperate need of "Intro to C
Programming".



Someone either didn't see your code, or is just as clueless as
you are.



As it should.



Because the C language standard requires it be so.



A magical option to fix buggy program. You wish.

Read about short-circuit evaluation here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short-circuit_evaluation

Then fix your bug(s).
Also note that read()ing files one byte at a time is extremely
inefficient. Better read larger chunks, and memcmp()are them.

Cheers,

2007-02-13, 22:51(-08), Paul Pluzhnikov:
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Or use stdio's getc/fgetc.

 actually I was trieng to write a program  like diff  where if line is
different it should be printed with line no. I first tried with same
file only. How can I use memcmp or some other API . I am not getting
please tell me

   Regards
    Sumit Shrivastava

wrote:

Hello,



To make it short: Do your homework, buy a book about C language, read and
understand it.
This is not the right group for these questions.

Regards,
Sebastian

That code segment is not comparing anything. Probably you meant to
write

  while(read(fd1, ptr1, 1) == read(fd2, ptr2, 1))  { ... }

As mentioned in another reply, this is a very inefficient way to
compare two files, but may be acceptable if the files are small.


Roberto Waltman

[ Please reply to the group,
  return address is invalid ]

Indeed, so inefficient as to not work.
The return value from each read() is likely to be 1, 0 or -1.

Peter

@$#&!! I need a coffee transfusion immediately!

Roberto Waltman

[ Please reply to the group,
  return address is invalid ]

Calm down supposedly he's a student who is to lazy to do his homework
himself.

-Michael

| Hi,
|   I tried to compare same file on linux. for this i did
|  while(read(fd1, ptr1, 1)  || read(fd2, ptr2, 1))  {

This logic says:  try to read from fd1 and if that fails then try to
read from fd2.  As long as reading from fd1 succeeds, reading from
fd2 will not be tried.  In a loop it will repeat reading from fd1
until EOF makes it fail, then it will repeat trying fd1 over and over
and reading from fd2 on each of those failures.

You need to read both files then you need to compare the contents of
the buffers after reading.