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Hi I am a student doing a project using C++ builder. I hava a problem in opening a number of files more than 47, when run it only it create 46 file, Please help me to be able to create any number of files. Thanks to your efforts. Mohd Klaib Example : FILE *out[100]; char filename[100]; int noFiles=78; for (int i=0 ; i<noFiles ; i++) { sprintf (filename,"c:/test/TestSuite%d",i); out[i]= fopen(filename, "wt"); }
mom.kl @gmail.com wrote: > Hi > I am a student doing a project using C++ builder. I hava a problem in > opening a number of files more than 47, when run it only it create 46 > file, Please help me to be able to create any number of files. Thanks > to your efforts. > Mohd Klaib > Example : > FILE *out[100]; > char filename[100]; > int noFiles=78; > for (int i=0 ; i<noFiles ; i++) > { > sprintf (filename,"c:/test/TestSuite%d",i); > out[i]= fopen(filename, "wt"); > }
This looks more like a C problem. There isn't a lot you can do if you have hit the number of open files limit for your system. You would be better off asking on a platform specific group. -- Ian Collins.
mom.kl @gmail.com wrote: > Hi > I am a student doing a project using C++ builder. I hava a problem in > opening a number of files more than 47, when run it only it create 46 > file, Please help me to be able to create any number of files. Thanks > to your efforts. > Mohd Klaib > Example : > FILE *out[100]; > char filename[100]; > int noFiles=78; > for (int i=0 ; i<noFiles ; i++) > { > sprintf (filename,"c:/test/TestSuite%d",i); > out[i]= fopen(filename, "wt"); > }
Do you really have to have 78 files open *simultaneously*? That's hard to believe. I suggest you operate on the files one at a time, and close them when you are finished. Reorganise your code to do this. john
On May 28, 9:00 am, John Harrison <john_androni@hotmail.com> wrote:
> mom.kl @gmail.com wrote: > > I am a student doing a project using C++ builder. I hava a problem in > > opening a number of files more than 47, when run it only it create 46 > > file, Please help me to be able to create any number of files. Thanks > > to your efforts. > > Example : > > FILE *out[100]; > > char filename[100]; > > int noFiles=78; > > for (int i=0 ; i<noFiles ; i++) > > { > > sprintf (filename,"c:/test/TestSuite%d",i); > > out[i]= fopen(filename, "wt"); > > } > Do you really have to have 78 files open *simultaneously*? That's hard > to believe. For a student project, maybe, but there's nothing particularly extraordinary for a server to have several hundred files open simultaneously. > I suggest you operate on the files one at a time, and close > them when you are finished.
That would mean opening the files for each request, and closing it at the end of the request. Which would slow things down considerably, and wouldn't necessarily help, since different threads (different client connections) will still access different files. -- James Kanze (GABI Software) email:james.ka@gmail.com Conseils en informatique oriente objet/ Beratung in objektorientierter Datenverarbeitung 9 place Smard, 78210 St.-Cyr-l'cole, France, +33 (0)1 30 23 00 34
On 5 28 , 2 07 , mom.kl@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi > I am a student doing a project using C++ builder. I hava a problem in > opening a number of files more than 47, when run it only it create 46 > file, Please help me to be able to create any number of files. Thanks > to your efforts. > Mohd Klaib > Example : > FILE *out[100]; > char filename[100]; > int noFiles=78; > for (int i=0 ; i<noFiles ; i++) > { > sprintf (filename,"c:/test/TestSuite%d",i); > out[i]= fopen(filename, "wt"); > }
Maybe you can use Windows API e.g. OpenFile(...). But I don't know how much files can be opened simultaneously by this API.
On 5 28 , 8 01 , kingfox <foxap@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5 28 , 2 07 , mom.kl @gmail.com wrote: > > Hi > > I am a student doing a project using C++ builder. I hava a problem in > > opening a number of files more than 47, when run it only it create 46 > > file, Please help me to be able to create any number of files. Thanks > > to your efforts. > > Mohd Klaib > > Example : > > FILE *out[100]; > > char filename[100]; > > int noFiles=78; > > for (int i=0 ; i<noFiles ; i++) > > { > > sprintf (filename,"c:/test/TestSuite%d",i); > > out[i]= fopen(filename, "wt"); > > } > Maybe you can use Windows API e.g. OpenFile(...). But I don't know how > much files can be opened simultaneously by this API.- - > - -
I just wrote a program to test how many files can be opened by Windows API - OpenFile. This program open more than 5000 files simultaneously. So I think OpenFile can fit your request. The program as below: //------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------- #include <iostream> #include <vector> #include <sstream> using namespace std; #include <windows.h> void closeFilesByAPI(HANDLE fileHandle) { CloseHandle(fileHandle); }
void howManyFilesCanBeOpenedByAPI() { vector<HANDLE> handleVector; HANDLE fileHandle; int count = 0; DWORD writtenBytes; do { stringstream fileName; fileName.clear(); fileName << "file" << count; fileHandle = CreateFile(fileName.str().c_str(), GENERIC_WRITE, FILE_SHARE_WRITE, NULL, CREATE_NEW, FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL +FILE_FLAG_RANDOM_ACCESS, NULL); if (fileHandle == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE) break; handleVector.push_back(fileHandle); WriteFile(fileHandle, fileName.str().c_str(), fileName.str().size(), &writtenBytes, NULL); cout << fileName.str() << '\r'; count ++; }while(fileHandle != INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE); cout << "Total number of files opened by ofstream is: " << count << endl; for_each(handleVector.begin(), handleVector.end(), closeFilesByAPI); }
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mom.kl@gmail.com a crit : > Hi > I am a student doing a project using C++ builder. I hava a problem in > opening a number of files more than 47, when run it only it create 46 > file, Please help me to be able to create any number of files. Thanks > to your efforts.
You can have a look at the _NFILE defines in stdio. It should give you the maximum number of file you can open with fopen. Try to display errno and associated error with perror upon open failure. It can help you identify the problem. In your program: sprintf (filename,"c:/test/TestSuite%d",i); out[i]= fopen(filename, "wt"); if(out[i]<=0) {//error perror(filename); }
Michael
In article <R5v6i.7694$zL6.7@newsfe7-gui.ntli.net>, john_androni@hotmail.com says... [ ... ] > Do you really have to have 78 files open *simultaneously*? That's hard > to believe. I suggest you operate on the files one at a time, and close > them when you are finished. Reorganise your code to do this.
On many systems, opening or closing a file is a fairly expensive operation, so this is likely to have a significant performance penalty. It's technically off-topic, but most standard libraries I've looked at had this limit set in a fairly easy-to-find definition. Adjust the definition, re-compile the library, and you're off and running. As long as we're off-topic: elsethread OpenFile was mentioned. MS considers this obsolete, and new code is encouraged to use CreateFile instead (though OpenFile probably isn't any more likely to disappear any time soon than parts of C++ that have been deprecated...) -- Later, Jerry. The universe is a figment of its own imagination.
On Mon, 28 May 2007 18:24:47 +1200, Ian Collins <ian-n@hotmail.com> wrote in comp.lang.c++:
> mom.kl @gmail.com wrote: > > Hi > > I am a student doing a project using C++ builder. I hava a problem in > > opening a number of files more than 47, when run it only it create 46 > > file, Please help me to be able to create any number of files. Thanks > > to your efforts. > > Mohd Klaib > > Example : > > FILE *out[100]; > > char filename[100]; > > int noFiles=78; > > for (int i=0 ; i<noFiles ; i++) > > { > > sprintf (filename,"c:/test/TestSuite%d",i); > > out[i]= fopen(filename, "wt"); > > } > This looks more like a C problem.
Looks like an obstructionist problem. Wait, let me double check... Yes, both sprintf() and fopen() are defined in the latest version of the C++ standard. In fact with addition of: #include <cstdio> #include <cstring> using namespace std; ...and placement inside a suitable function, the user's snippet is 100% perfectly conforming standard C++ code. Even with the addition of: #include <stdio.h> #include <string.h> ...the code is conforming, although deprecated. > There isn't a lot you can do if you have hit the number of open files > limit for your system. You would be better off asking on a platform > specific group.
Your advice is quite correct, but your comment is completely incorrect. If you don't like using standard C++ library functions that happen to be inherited from C, that's fine and dandy. But no use of a function defined by the C++ standard is a "C problem". Believe it or not, the C standard says absolutely nothing at all about the behavior of fopen() or sprintf() in a C++ program. Anything and everything in a C++ program is off-topic in C language groups. The fact that C++ defines some functions with the same names as those in the C library, and defines them to accept similar parameters and return similar values, does not make them C functions when used in a C++ program. -- Jack Klein Home: http://JK-Technology.Com FAQs for comp.lang.c http://c-faq.com/ comp.lang.c++ http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/ alt.comp.lang.learn.c-c++ http://www.club.cc.cmu.edu/~ajo/docs/FAQ-acllc.html
On Mon, 28 May 2007 18:56:38 -0500, Jack Klein wrote: > Even with the addition of: > #include <stdio.h> > #include <string.h> > ...the code is conforming, although deprecated.
Why should this be conforming? These are implementation specific header files that need not work with anything but the specific C compiler they are part of. Of course in practice many vendors offer C and C++ compilers and design there C system header files in such a way that they are compatible with their C++ compiler but that is certainly not a requirement of either the C or C++ standard. -- Markus Schoder
On May 29, 10:02 am, Markus Schoder <a3vr6dsg-use@yahoo.de> wrote:
> On Mon, 28 May 2007 18:56:38 -0500, Jack Klein wrote: > > Even with the addition of: > > #include <stdio.h> > > #include <string.h> > > ...the code is conforming, although deprecated. > Why should this be conforming? These are implementation specific header > files that need not work with anything but the specific C compiler they > are part of. > Of course in practice many vendors offer C and C++ compilers and design > there C system header files in such a way that they are compatible with > their C++ compiler but that is certainly not a requirement of either the > C or C++ standard. > -- > Markus Schoder
Thank you for your advises and help. klaib
Jack Klein wrote: > On Mon, 28 May 2007 18:24:47 +1200, Ian Collins <ian-n @hotmail.com> > wrote in comp.lang.c++: [...] > Your advice is quite correct, but your comment is completely > incorrect. If you don't like using standard C++ library functions > that happen to be inherited from C, that's fine and dandy.
The original code was bad C++, even if it is legal. (Goto is legal C++. Even gets() is legal C++. That doesn't mean that they are good.) > But no use of a function defined by the C++ standard is a "C problem". > Believe it or not, the C standard says absolutely nothing at all about > the behavior of fopen() or sprintf() in a C++ program.
It most certainly does. The definition of these functions in the C++ standard is: "see ISO 9899". > Anything and > everything in a C++ program is off-topic in C language groups. > The fact that C++ defines some functions with the same names as those > in the C library, and defines them to accept similar parameters and > return similar values, does not make them C functions when used in a > C++ program.
The fact that a C++ compiler can sometimes compiler pure C doesn't make a program in pure C++ C++. It's not clear whether the original poster was trying to write C or C++. If he's trying to write C++, he's going about it wrong, as there are far better solutions in C++. -- James Kanze (GABI Software) email:james.ka@gmail.com Conseils en informatique oriente objet/ Beratung in objektorientierter Datenverarbeitung 9 place Smard, 78210 St.-Cyr-l'cole, France, +33 (0)1 30 23 00 34
On May 29, 4:02 am, Markus Schoder <a3vr6dsg-use@yahoo.de> wrote: > On Mon, 28 May 2007 18:56:38 -0500, Jack Klein wrote: > > Even with the addition of: > > #include <stdio.h> > > #include <string.h> > > ...the code is conforming, although deprecated. > Why should this be conforming?
Because the C++ standard requires it. The C++ standard also requires support for "C" language linkage, which more or less supposes that the C++ compiler "knows" about at least one C compiler on the target platform. (The C++ standard doesn't say how an implementation is supposed to treat this if there is no C compiler for the target platform. To my knowledge, however, this problem has yet to occur.) > These are implementation specific header files that need not > work with anything but the specific C compiler they are part > of. > Of course in practice many vendors offer C and C++ compilers and design > there C system header files in such a way that they are compatible with > their C++ compiler but that is certainly not a requirement of either the > C or C++ standard.
There is a a requirement in the C++ standard that the headers stdio.h and string.h exist in the C++ implementation, and that they have very specific semantics, which are subtly different than those of C. In practice, most implementations do use the same headers (with a few #ifdef's) in both C and C++, although this normally results in the headers not being fully conform to the C++ standard. -- James Kanze (GABI Software) email:james.ka@gmail.com Conseils en informatique oriente objet/ Beratung in objektorientierter Datenverarbeitung 9 place Smard, 78210 St.-Cyr-l'cole, France, +33 (0)1 30 23 00 34
Jack Klein wrote: > On Mon, 28 May 2007 18:24:47 +1200, Ian Collins <ian-n @hotmail.com> > wrote in comp.lang.c++: >> mom.kl@gmail.com wrote: >>> Hi >>> I am a student doing a project using C++ builder. I hava a problem in >>> opening a number of files more than 47, when run it only it create 46 >>> file, Please help me to be able to create any number of files. Thanks >>> to your efforts. >>> Mohd Klaib >>> Example : >>> FILE *out[100]; >>> char filename[100]; >>> int noFiles=78; >>> for (int i=0 ; i<noFiles ; i++) >>> { >>> sprintf (filename,"c:/test/TestSuite%d",i); >>> out[i]= fopen(filename, "wt"); >>> } >> This looks more like a C problem. > Looks like an obstructionist problem. > Wait, let me double check...
<rant snipped> Was all that nonsense really worth the effort expended typing it? -- Ian Collins.
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