> Very interesting Bharath !!! > Yes thank you. You have identified the issue and we can now tell Julien exactly what he has to do. > What would be your advice to get my program working ?! > Use fgets(). The scan() family apparently do not handle EOF in the way needed. Thus to work your code must be: char line[8196]; char ip[45]; char url[8196]; ip[0] = '\0'; url[0] = '\0'; while( fgets(line, 8196, stdin) != NULL ) { snscanf(sbuf, 8196, "%s %s" ip, url); // happy joy .... } Amos > Thanks > > On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 9:19 PM, Bharath Raghavendran > <rbharath25@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I was playing around with scanf just now. scanf seems to be able to >> input 2 strings : >> scanf("%s %s", &str1, &str2); >> >> Moreover, I also noticed that "while( scanf( ..blah.. ) )" doesn't >> work as intended. i.e., its unable to detect an EOF. Hence, when squid >> quits/restarts and it sends an EOF to the program, the program does >> not quit. This could be the cause for getting multiple children when >> squid restarts. >> >> -Bharath >> >> 2009/4/30 Julien Philibin <julien@xxxxxxxxxxx>: >>> On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 1:22 AM, Amos Jeffries <squid3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >>> wrote: >>>> Julien Philibin wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hi John, >>>>> thanks for your reply. >>>>> >>>>> I'll give a shot with your skeleton and see how things are going on >>>>> ... >>>>> >>>>> On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 1:59 AM, John Doe <jdmls@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> From: Julien Philibin <julien@xxxxxxxxxxx> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Hi, I've been trying to find a typical external ACL C program >>>>>>> skeleton >>>>>>> for a while, but I wasn't able to find anything very interesting >>>>>>> ... >>>>>>> What I would like to do, is to read to different strings and >>>>>>> process >>>>>>> them in order to allow/disallow access to a website. >>>>>>> The thing is, after a while I get two processes that use around 10 >>>>>>> Mb >>>>>>> of memory and 15% of my CPU .... >>>>>>> Also, if I restart squid, I'll get two more processes running and >>>>>>> so >>>>>>> on, everytime I restart squid ... >>>>>> >>>>>> Personaly, I use fgets/fflush and I did not see any problem (memory >>>>>> leak, >>>>>> etc) so far... >>>>>> Something like: >>>>>> >>>>>> #define INPUTSIZE 4096 >>>> >>>> FYI: I've just had to start bumping my own custom helpers to using >>>> 8196 or >>>> more for their buffers. Current Squid allow up to 8196 for URL length >>>> and >>>> many more for possible headers length so watch that on inputs. >>>> >>>> >>>>>> char input[INPUTSIZE]; >>>>>> while (fgets(input, sizeof(input), stdin)) { >>>>>> if ((cp=strchr(input, '\n')) == NULL) { >>>>>> fprintf(stderr, "filter: input too big: %s\n", input); >>>>>> } else { >>>>>> *cp = '\0'; >>>>>> } >>>>>> ... >>>>>> fflush(stderr); >>>>>> fflush(stdout); >>>>>> } >>>>>> >>>>>> Do you use any malloc or functions that malloc... and that would >>>>>> need a >>>>>> free? >>>>> >>>>> Yes I do, but I also free them (the memory usage doesn't change). I >>>>> also made a mistake, it is not 10Mb but 1 ... >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> THe only weird thing is that after a restart (of squid), it looks >>>>> like >>>>> squid doesn't have any control anymore on the externals programs and >>>>> they (both of external programs) start to use a lot of CPU... >>>>> >>>>> Maybe it has something to do with stdin that was not flushed >>>>> correctly >>>>> and creates an infinite loop or something ... >>>> >>>> Probably. Squid simply closes its connection to the pipes and abandons >>>> the >>>> old helper. Leaving the pipe close with a '\0' I believe. >>>> From the docs of scanf() I don't get a clear idea of the return value >>>> when >>>> empty string is received (is it 1/0/EOF?). >>>> >>> >>> I'll try to figure it out as soon as my helper is working properly :-) >>> >>>> Also scanf() you were using earlier has no concept of length and opens >>>> the >>>> possibility of buffer over-runs. >>>> >>>> Prefer fgets or snscanf() as input methods. >>>> >>> >>> Hi guys, so, I've been trying to implement the source code you gave to >>> me. I am running into an issue. >>> >>> my first string is supposed to be a source (lenght <= 16) >>> and the second one the URl of the website that the user is trying to >>> access. >>> >>> When I use the fgets method: fgets(source, sizeof(source), stdin) it >>> doesn't work. if the Ip address is less than 15, the program simply >>> takes the beginning of the destination URL and everything goes wrong >>> .... >>> >>> So I was wondering what would you guys use ? >>> >>> sscanf(stdin, "%s", s); >>> or >>> scanf("%s", &source); //as I was doing before, and double check the >>> buffer's size >>> or >>> Something else? >>> >>> I have to admit, all this is confusing me a little bit :-) >>> There must be an easy/secure way to catch two strings from stdin ... >>> >>> Thanks for your time guys. >>> >>>> Amos >>>> -- >>>> Please be using >>>> Current Stable Squid 2.7.STABLE6 or 3.0.STABLE14 >>>> Current Beta Squid 3.1.0.7 >>>> >>> >>> Julien >>> >> >