The problem of removing leading and trailing whitespace characters in strings occurs in programming quite often. Here is a solution.
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <ctype.h>
void trim (char *dest, char *src);
int main (int argc, char **argv)
{
char inbuf [1024];
char outbuf [1024];
printf ("Type a string : ");
while (fgets (inbuf, 1024, stdin) !=… Read more 
The Client-Server paradigm divides the software architecture of a system in two parts, the server and its clients. The server works in the background and maintains the system-wide database. Using the database, it provides the functions for system operation and responses to queries from the clients.… Read more
While running Ubuntu 18.04.1 on a laptop, the following errors were observed.
mce: hardware error cpu 0 machine check 0 bank 6 ae0000000040110a mce: hardware error tsc 0 addr ffb07540 misc 238a0000086 mce: hardware error processor 0:40651 time 1540082330 socket 0 Apic 0 microcode 24 ipmi dmi invalid offset 0
The system would stop in the single user mode.… Read more
There are two major types of network sockets, viz. Stream sockets (SOCK_STREAM) and Datagram sockets (SOCK_DGRAM). The socket type defines the semantics of communication between this socket and its remote counterpart. Stream sockets provide full-duplex reliable sequenced data streams.… Read more
Client server model is a software architecture paradigm prevalent in distributed applications. A server has information resources and processes that provide answers to queries and other services to remote clients over the network. Some of the examples of these services are booking an airline ticket and/or a room in a hotel, sending a file to a client, sending a mail message to another person (client), etc.… Read more
A signal is a notification delivered to a process by the kernel. A signal indicates that an event has occurred and the process must take note of it. Signals are mostly delivered asynchronously to a process. Whatever the process was doing is suspended and the processing of the signal takes place immediately.… Read more
systemd is the newer init system used in most Linux distributions since 2015. The first widely used init system was the System V init process, sysvinit. Ubuntu introduced the Upstart init system with Ubuntu 6.10 in 2006. Ubuntu fully migrated to systemd with Ubuntu 15.04 in 2015.… Read more
While configuring a Linux server, the error Failed to fetch webpage, temporary failure resolving domain
was observed.
$ sudo apt-get update Err:1 ... bionic InRelease Temporary failure resolving ... Err:2 ... bionic-updates InRelease Temporary failure resolving ... ... Reading package lists...… Read more
After updating the Drupal 7 version in a website, the following error was observed in the configuration of the Composer Manager module.
Composer Manager: Composer's install command must be run to generate the autoloader and install the required packages.… Read more
After updating the website to a new version of Drupal 7, the following error was printed on the web pages.
Notice: Trying to get property of non-object in block_block_view() (line 247 of modules/block/block.module).
The error was resolved by the following steps.… Read more