How to extract and compress a cpio archive file in Qt

[sarode]

Hello Everyone!

I have a cpio archive file and want to extract the same and compress later after modifications are done to the archive file.

I tried doing this using QProcess from Qt 4.

Please anyone can guide me to do this.

Thanks and Regards,
Sarode

[wysota]

Your approach was correct. What went wrong?

[sarode]

Hi,

I tried by passing the arguments to QProcess::start(...) function with arguments
command name as cpio and arguments as the file name but the process was not able to produce the output. Even when i checked the standard output for the output the data was not available.

Do we need to set any mode before calling this function to copy all the data which is extracted from the archive file?

Please clarify.

Regards,
Sarode

[wysota]

Maybe the process didn't start successfully?
Either use waitForStarted() or check the state of the process after a while. Also make sure the executable is in the PATH and that you provided correct arguments for the process - i.e. remember that you shouldn't surround arguments with quotes or use any wildcards.

[sarode]

Hello,

I tried to call the process cpio in the following way and used the conditions like waitForFinished() and waitForStated() - none of them gave me any indications. I think i am not using these flags properly.

I have sent a piece of code below which i have written. Please clarify where went wrong.

QProcess proc1;
.....
 
void RunProcess::runProcess()
{
       QString program = "/usr/bin/cpio";
       QStringList arguments;
       arguments << "-i < " << "archive file path";
 
       proc1->start(program, arguments);
       if(proc1->waitForFinished())
              return;
}

QProcess proc1;
.....

void RunProcess::runProcess()
{
       QString program = "/usr/bin/cpio";
       QStringList arguments;
       arguments << "-i < " << "archive file path";

       proc1->start(program, arguments);
       if(proc1->waitForFinished())
              return;
}

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If i dont include the waitForFinished() flag the program says that the process is destroyed when the application is closed.

Thanks and Regards,
Wish you Happy new year
Sarode

[jpn]

Try

arguments << "-i" << "<" << "archive file path";

arguments << "-i" << "<" << "archive file path";

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[sarode]

Hello,

Tried passing the arguments as you suggest.

QString program1 = "/usr/bin/cpio";
 QStringList arguments1;
  arguments1 << "-i" << "<" << "/tmp/rootfs/archivefile";
 
  proc1->start(program1, arguments1);
  if(proc1->waitForStarted())
         qWarning("Not Started");

QString program1 = "/usr/bin/cpio";
 QStringList arguments1;
  arguments1 << "-i" << "<" << "/tmp/rootfs/archivefile";

  proc1->start(program1, arguments1);
  if(proc1->waitForStarted())
         qWarning("Not Started");

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But still not able to execute the process. Here even the if condition will not be true.

Please clarify

Regards,
Sarode

[jpn]

Try what's being suggested in this post.

[wysota]

"<" is a shell redirect command, isn't it? It won't work here as there is no shell. You need to perform the redirection yourself by writing to stdin of the process.

[sarode]

Hi,

Tried the other option specified the following output.

QStringList arguments1;
  arguments1 << "-i" << "<filename_with_absolute_path";
  // other option
 //  arguments1 << "-i" << "<" << "filename_with_absolute_path";
 
    proc1->start("/usr/bin/cpio", arguments1);
 
    if(!proc1->waitForFinished())
           qWarning("Returned");
 
    connect(proc1, SIGNAL(started()), this, SLOT(readData()));
 
void Process::readData()
{
    qWarning("Started");
}

QStringList arguments1;
  arguments1 << "-i" << "<filename_with_absolute_path";
  // other option
 //  arguments1 << "-i" << "<" << "filename_with_absolute_path";

    proc1->start("/usr/bin/cpio", arguments1);

    if(!proc1->waitForFinished())
           qWarning("Returned");

    connect(proc1, SIGNAL(started()), this, SLOT(readData()));

void Process::readData()
{
    qWarning("Started");
}

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I got the following output. the process is able to start when i checked for the pid of the process, the state of the process is also S+ in #pa ax

The program halts with following output
Returned
QProcess: Destroyed while process is still running.

I am not able to understand, can we read the output generated by any buffer?

Regards,
Sarode

[wysota]

You still use a redirection! You can't do that as there is no shell running over QProcess unless you start one yourself. Your "<" gets sent to cpio instead of the file contents it expects. The process starts but does nothing useful as it gets wrong data.

[Thomas]

Man, you don't get it, right? Ok, let me repeat it a last time: you are using redirection which is a Shell feature. Through Qt you are starting a process. So no Shell available, only cpio. Result: no redirection possible.

Why don't you simply read the info page of cpio? It is clearly explained there how to use a file instead of redirection. For the impaired: it is the option -F[SPACE]FILENAME or --file=FILENAME

[sarode]

Hello Thomas,

I did it that 3 days back. I could not post it back.
its working fine.

Thanks to all.
Sarode

[Thomas]

Never mind; glad that it finally works.