General Info
Group project for the Operative System (OS) course in Computer Science at the University of Trento.
- Repo: file-analyzer
- Language: C
- Start date: 2020/04/28
- End date: 2020/06/07
Description & Objectives
The main focus of this project is to count the occurrences of chars inside one or more files (normal ASCII).
To make all as extensible and modular as possible, we’ve developed several components, each of them having specific tasks. In particular:
- Counter spawns the reporter and the analyzer.
- Reporter creates the terminal user interface Tui and communicates with the analyzer.
- Analyzer takes all inputs from the user and finds all files given a directory. Then, while files are being discovered, analyzer sends founded ones to managers.
- Manager takes files and split them in several works. A work starts from a specific point of the file and ends in another. When works are ready they are sent to workers.
- Worker takes the file, the start point and the end point. After that he reads the portion of the file
Results
- We developed an efficient multithread and multiprocess program in C to analyze recursively the files contained inside of a folder and produce statistics about them — average of 51 files/seconds.
- User interaction is supported through a Terminal User Interface (TUI) to handle which files to consider, the number of processes to be spawned, the statistics to be shown, and to traverse the local file system.
Final Mark
30L (i.e. with honors) out of 30