`The loadTable.c file details`

loadTable.c
_loadTable.h

Data Structures :
StrArr *strArr : The string array that keeps all the information about coordinator
read from the node_inf_file.

    char    myIPaddr[100] : The variable stores the ip-address of the machine.
    char    machineName[100] : Stores the name of the machine.
    char    ipAddr[100] : The value of the ip-address read from the node_inf_file.
    char    archName[100] : The machine architecture.
    char    fileSystem [100] : The file system type.
    char    capacity [100] : The machine capacity.
    char    cpuId1[100] : The beginning of the range.
    char    cpuId2[100] : Then end of the range.

Following are the tasks done in this file loadTable.c:

Open the file that is specified by the join process from which the information about the hostname can be obtained. If no file-name is specified then the default file "kernel/src/coordinator/node_inf_file" is opened.
This file has an entry for each of the machine that could possibly participate in the ARC system.
All these entries are scanned one by one to find some entry that matches the details of the host-machine.
If the entry is found it means that the host-machine is permitted to take part in the ARC computing else not.
Now having found the entry, all the other details containted in that entry are copied in a string array.

Below is the format of the information stored in the "/kernel/src/coordinator/node_inf_file".
An example of the entry in the file could be following :

janjira 192.168.211.33 JANJIRA janjira 9000 1073778689 1073782784

I has seven columns.

Column 1: The name of the machine.
Column 2: IP address of the machine.
Column 3: Machine architecture.
Column 4: File system present in the machine.
Column 5: Computational capacity of the machine, measured relative to the standard machine whose computing capacity has been assumed to be 10000.
Column 6: Beginning range of the program number.
Column 7: End range of the program number.