Editing User:Popescu.andrei1991

==Personal Info==
Hello, my name is Andrei - Constantin Popescu, I usually go by Andrei. I am a second year undergraduate at Polytechnic University of Bucharest,studying at the
computer science department.

==Contact== 
I can usually be found on IRC on #brlcad - freenode, I have various nicknames, depending on availablity : andrei, andrei_, andrei__.
The quickest way to reach me on e-mail is the address:
popescu.andrei1991@gmail.com - I read  emails on this several times a day.
My github account is : https://github.com/pandrei 

I will use this page to keep track of my progress on a daily basis.

==Project Summary==
Firstly, here can be found my official proposal.
https://google-melange.appspot.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2012/popescuandrei/4002

The purpose of a package managing library ( or tool) is to pass around packages 
containing data from brlcad tools. The packages are sent via TCP and as a result
are using TCP header.
TCP -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_Control_Protocol

My current knowledge is that the TCP Payload[1] has a size of 64kb, at least
in the linux kernel. There has been a reported incident where libpkg fails to send 24k+ packages.
[1] Payload - TCP field containinig effective data (user data, for example).

I believe this is the reported incident : http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.cad.brlcad.devel/959.

Tpkg will be used for testing the package issue. 
I am currently researching dstat and ifstat, found via 
apt-cache search ifstat
dstat - versatile resource statistics tool
ifstat - InterFace STATistics Monitoring

The curent state of brlcad libpkg is a basic client-server protocol.

==GsoC 2012 progress==

So far I have managed to compile and install brl-cad on a 32-bit Archlinux.
I am focusing on the tpkg command to see what exactly happens and properly submitting the global removal patch.

== Daily development log ==
21th May - 8th of June -  exams period, minor work on tpkg patch and on the
red - black tree test unit.

9th June - working on obtaining commit access asap. Currently developing the
performance shell script.

10-11th June - not much work , documenting regarding bash programming.

12-13th June -finishing the shell script, applying feedback given by Erik on the tpkg parameter patch.

14th June - submitting the final version of the shell script.

15-17th of June - learning K&R indentation, learning about POSIX. Finishing the tpkg script and the tpkg.c modifications.

18th of June - unsuccesful attempts to sync the server and client ( To start the client only after server started) using signal handling, docummenting about signal handling

19th of June - unsuccesful attempts to achieve the above by using inter-process communications, understanding thread concepts, docummenting about the basics of fork() , pthreads_

20th of June - sync the server with the client by using a loop to detect a key string (while "Server_ready" isn't found in the log_file the client does not start. Having issues with redirecting output from a background process

21th of June - finished tpkg script for localhost ( both client and server are on the same machine), developing the remote one. (Using two different machines)