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Subject: Re: Test case 1 
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 15:34:10 -0700
From: william@bourbon.usc.edu

Someone wrote:

  > 	From your response to the question below, when a node has no file,
  > if we do not create an entry for that node in the .out file, how can the
  > grader know if the status command works properly since there is no evidence
  > of node actually responded. I thought the spec said if a node has no file,
  > we should at least print "hostname:port has no file".

Sorry!  I completely forgot about that.  You are correct.

You should follow the spec!
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Bill Cheng // bill.cheng@usc.edu <URL:http://merlot.usc.edu/william/usc/>





  -----Original Message-----
  From: william@bourbon.usc.edu [mailto:william@bourbon.usc.edu] 
  Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2007 11:07 AM
  To: cs551@merlot.usc.edu
  Subject: Re: Test case 1
  
  Someone wrote:
  
    > I have some doubt about test case 1. In this case,
    > there's no files in the network, should we create
    > an empty .out file?
    > 
    > PS. Test case 1:
    > 
    > (1) Network with 1 beacon node : +28 points
    >             autoshutdown=600 sec, keepalive timeout=10 sec,
    >             msglifetime=15 sec
    >             CacheProb=0, StoreProb=1, NeighborStoreProb=1
    >             CacheSize=10, PermSize=10
    > 
    >             (a) in one window, do:
    >                     ~csci551b/bin/resetf2
    >                     /bin/rm b3-n??.ini ??.out
    >                     cp ~/grading/guidelines/final2/b3-n??.ini .
    >                     cp ~csci551b/public/final2/*.gif .
    >                     cp ~csci551b/public/final2/*.jpg .
    >                     cp ~csci551b/public/final2/*.mp3 .
    >                     ./sv_node b3-n00.ini
    >   (+2 points)
    >                         (wait 5 seconds, at the commandline prompt, type
    >                              "status files 1 00.out", look at "00.out")
  
  Correct.
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  Bill Cheng // bill.cheng@usc.edu <URL:http://merlot.usc.edu/william/usc/>