fix logs being spammed with newlines after other party ends session

client.cc

@@ -24,10 +24,12 @@ closeClient()
 
 	gettimeofday(&end1, NULL);
 	close(clientSocketDescriptor);
-	printf("********Session********");
-	printf("Bytes written: %i\nBytes read: %i\n", bytesWritten, bytesRead);
-	printf("Elapsed time: %ld\n secs\n", e);
-	printf("Connection closed...\n");
+	
+	puts("********Session********");
+	printf("Bytes written: %i\n", bytesWritten);
+	printf("Bytes read: %i\n", bytesRead);
+	printf("Elapsed time: %ld secs\n", e);
+	puts("Connection closed.");
 }
 
 void *
@@ -37,6 +39,7 @@ pollForSever(void *args)
 	int socketDescriptor = (int)aaa->auxInt;
 	char msg[1024];
 	while (1) {
+	server_message_loop:
 		memset(&msg, 0, sizeof(msg)); // clear the buffer
 		bytesRead += recv(socketDescriptor, (char *)&msg, sizeof(msg), 0);
 
@@ -49,11 +52,19 @@ pollForSever(void *args)
 		}*/
 		// cout << "Server: " << msg << endl;
 		// printf("Server: %s\n");
+
+		if (msg[0] == '\0')
+			goto server_message_loop;
+
 		writeToFile(logFileName, msg);
+
 		if (linesInFile(logFileName) > LOG_LENGTH)
 			linePos++;
+
 		displayFile(logFileName, linePos, LOG_LENGTH);
 	}
+
+	return nullptr;
 }
 
 void
@@ -77,8 +88,10 @@ setupClient()
 	// try to connect...
 	int status =
 	    connect(clientSocketDescriptor, (sockaddr *)&sendSockAddr, sizeof(sendSockAddr));
+
 	if (status < 0)
 		writeToFile(logFileName, "Error connecting to socket!");
+
 	writeToFile(logFileName, "Connected to the server!");
 	int bytesRead, bytesWritten = 0;
 	struct timeval start1, end1;

com.txt

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-g++ -pthread -Wall -Wextra -O2 -std=c++17 -lcurses -g -c *.cc
-g++ -pthread -Wall -Wextra -O2 -std=c++17 -lcurses -g -o ct *.o

log.cc

@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 #include <fstream>
 
+#include <ios>
+#include <sys/stat.h>
+
 #include "public.h"
 #include "log.h"
 
@@ -27,10 +30,16 @@ int
 writeToFile(string path, string line, bool incLineNum)
 {
 	ofstream file;
-	file.open(path, ios_base::app); // open the file in append mode
+
+	/*
+	 * Hopefully this fixes the program messing up where the server/client
+	 * doesn't start if the file wasn't created by a previous session.
+	 */
+	file.open(path, ios_base::out|ios_base::app);
 
 	if (file.is_open()) {
 		file << line << endl;
+		file.close();
 		// this probably would help but theres too much broken stuff
 		// right now to be sure if (incLineNum)
 		//{

main.cc

@@ -97,6 +97,7 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
 	} else if (mode == 1) {
 		writeToFile(logFileName, "SERVER MODE");
 		setupServer(PORT_NUM);
+		linePos++; /* No idea why, but this needs to be here. */
 	}
 
 	while (!exit) {
@@ -107,10 +108,17 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
 		if (linesInFile(logFileName) > LOG_LENGTH)
 			linePos++;
 
+		/* clear message box / reset cursor */
 		move(12, 0);
-		printw("> ");
+		printw(">\t\t\t");
+		move(12,2);
+		
 		getstr(userInput);
 		writeToFile(logFileName, userInput);
+
+		if (!strncmp(userInput, "/quit", 5))
+			exit = true;
+
 		if (mode == 1)
 			send(clientSocketDescriptor, (char *)userInput, strlen(userInput), 0);
 		else
@@ -118,7 +126,12 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
 	}
 
 	endwin();
+	//closeServer();
+
+	if (mode == 1)
 		closeServer();
+	else if (mode == 2)
+		closeClient();
 
 	return 0;
 }

server.cc

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+#include <cstdio>
 #include <curses.h>
 #include <netinet/in.h>
 #include <pthread.h>
@@ -40,13 +41,19 @@ pollForClient()
 {
 	char msg[1024];
 	while (1) {
+	client_message_loop:
 		// receive a message from the client (listen)
 		memset(&msg, 0, sizeof(msg)); // clear the buffer
 		bytesRead += recv(clientSocketDescriptor, (char *)&msg, sizeof(msg), 0);
-		writeToFile(logFileName,
-			    msg); // write the client's message to file
+
+		if (msg[0] == '\0')
+			goto client_message_loop;
+
+		writeToFile(logFileName, msg);
+
 		if (linesInFile(logFileName) > LOG_LENGTH)
 			linePos++;
+
 		displayFile(logFileName, linePos, LOG_LENGTH);
 	}
 
@@ -98,7 +105,7 @@ setupServer(int port)
 	aaa->newSockAddrSize = newSockAddrSize;
 	int rc = pthread_create(&client_wait_thread, nullptr, waitForClient, aaa);
 	pthread_detach(client_wait_thread);
-	writeToFile(logFileName, "Server started sucessfully");
+	writeToFile(logFileName, "Server started successfully");
 	gettimeofday(&start1, NULL);
 
 	return 0;
@@ -116,8 +123,9 @@ closeServer()
 	close(serverSocketDescriptor);
 
 	/* Don't just die silently */
-	printf("********Session********\n");
-	printf("Bytes written: %i\nBytes Read: %i\n", bytesWritten, bytesRead);
-	printf("Elapsed time: %ld\n secs\n", e);
-	printf("Connection closed...\n");
+	puts("********Session********");
+	printf("Bytes written: %i\n", bytesWritten);
+	printf("Bytes read: %i\n", bytesRead);
+	printf("Elapsed time: %ld secs\n", e);
+	puts("Connection closed.");
 }