A Note On Cheating

Please take a minute and read this document in its entirety!

Just a note to remind everyone what is "ok" and what is "not" in terms of talking to other project groups about this and future projects.

It is DEFINITELY OK to:

discuss the project in general terms (what do they mean by a pipe?)
discuss how different library routines/system calls work (strtok() takes two arguments, ...)
discuss strategies for successful implementation (our message format is going to be simple...)
help others debug their code and find problems

It is NOT OK to:

share your code directly with other people/project groups (oh, you want to know how to use Domain_Write(), well here's my code and it works so you can just use/copy that)

IMPORTANT: Take precautions so as to prevent someone from copying your code without your knowledge! How do you do this? Well, first, you have to use the "fs" command to make sure no one can snoop about your directories. Let's say you have a directory which contains project 2, called "~remzi/p2". To make sure no one else (save your project partner) can look around in there, do the following:

'cd' into the directory

prompt> cd ~remzi/p2

check the current permissions for the "." directory ("." is the current dir)

prompt> fs la .

make sure system:anyuser (that is, anybody at all) doesn't have any permissions

prompt> fs sa . system:anyuser ""

check to make sure it all worked

prompt> fs la .
Access list for . is
Normal rights:
system:administrators rlidwka
remzi rlidwka

As you can see from the output of the last "fs la ." command, only the system administrators and remzi can do anything within that directory. You can give your partner rights within the directory by using "fs sa" again:

prompt> fs sa . dusseau rlidwka
prompt> fs la .
Access list for . is
Normal rights:
system:administrators rlidwka
remzi rlidwka
dusseau rlidwka

If at any point you see the directory has permissions like this:

prompt> fs la .
Access list for . is
Normal rights:
system:administrators rlidwka
remzi rlidwka
system:anyuser rl

that means that any user in the system can read ("r") and list files ("l") in that directory, which is probably not what you want.

If you are curious to learn more about all of this, go to this URL.

ALSO IMPORTANT: Make sure not to leave print outs on the printer!

Of course, if any code sharing is discovered, harsh penalties will be applied. Now I know that most/all of you won't do this (and I know this all sounds quite unpleasant), but I just wanted to make it clear what the guidelines are.

If you have any further questions on the gray area between what is OK and what is NOT OK, please feel free to ask.