Coding Spirit

When we have a build system like Yocto or Buildroot, cross compiling a CMake project is a simple task - We just need to create a simple CMake inherited recipe. If the SoC vendor only provides toolchain for you to cross compile a single CMake project, CMake toolchain file is a good approach.

Sometimes we noticed that printf will only flush after there is a newline in the print string, this behavior is caused by stdout stream buffer, which is line buffered by default. This behavior has been mentioned in ISO C99 standard:

There are few options to make it to print immediately once you called it.

SSH connection will automatically drop due to timeout if there is no operation for a period. To keep connection alive, we can config ssh client to send a keepalive periodically. In ~/.ssh/config, there is a parameter for this:

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ServerAliveInterval 60

If we set this value to 60, SSH client will send a keepalive every 60 seconds.

Algorithm Puzzles everyday every week sometimes: Symmetric Tree

Algorithm Puzzles everyday every week sometimes: Number of Islands

Last week when I was trying to run tshark in a Docker container to capture http packets, tshark reported following error even with root user:

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tshark: Couldn't run /usr/bin/dumpcap in child process: Operation not permitted

After searching, to access dumcap, we need to add --cap-add options when start container, then add user into wireshark group:

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docker run --cap-add=NET_RAW --cap-add=NET_ADMIN $IMAGE
usermod -a -G wireshark $USER

Jenkins is running on port 8080 by default, thus user need to manually add :8080 when access Jenkins. If we make it running on port 80(default http port), user will no longer need to type port number manually.

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CMake will try to check compiler is working or not if project language was set to C/CXX. However, sometimes we just want to skip this test…

With OAuth2 Token Authentication

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curl -H "Authorization: token <OAUTH-TOKEN>" https://api.github.com

Create A Release And Add An Artifact

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# Create a new release and get upload url
upload_url=$(curl -s -H "Authorization: token $TOKEN"  \
     -d '{"tag_name":"'"$ARTIFACTS_BASE_NAME"'", "name":"'"$ARTIFACTS_BASE_NAME"'", "body":"'"$ARTIFACTS_BASE_NAME"'", "target_commitish":"'"$TARGET_BRANCH"'"}'  \
     "https://api.github.com/repos/$REPO/$TARGET_BRANCH" | jq -r '.upload_url')

upload_url="${upload_url%\{*}"

# Upload a tarball
curl -s -H "Authorization: token $TOKEN"  \
            -H "Content-Type: application/x-gzip" \
            --data-binary @$ARTIFACTS_BASE_NAME.tar.gz  \
            "$upload_url?name=$ARTIFACTS_BASE_NAME.tar.gz&label=$ARTIFACTS_BASE_NAME.tar.gz"