The Progress of My Coding Till Now:

I am attaching two images of the GUI's main window and the only
dialog. The GUI is programmed in Lazarus Pascal.

The backend is in C. The code till now, although it doesn't do anything useful.
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#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <unistd.h>


using namespace std;

#define opSave                0
#define opSaveConnect            1
#define opQueryConnect            2
#define opDeleteConnect            3
#define opConnectionConnect        4
#define opDisconnectActiveConnection    5
#define opScan                6
#define opLoadExisting            7

    
/*
1) Glib::spawn_sync instead of a pipe stream, provides a slot.
2) cmd trying to call an inexistent command still returns a valid pointer!
verify cmd exists before calling exec
*/

inline bool file_exists(char* name) {
return (access(name, F_OK) != -1);
}

int exec(const char* cmd, char* out)
{
    const int buf_size = 128;

        

    FILE * pipe = popen(cmd, "r");
    char buffer[buf_size];
    while(!feof(pipe)) {
        if(fgets(buffer, buf_size, pipe) != NULL)
        {
            if (out != NULL)
                strcat(out, buffer);
                else strcpy(out, buffer);
        }
    }

        

    return pclose(pipe);
}

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    char *out = 0;
    int switch_item = -1;
    if (argc > 1) switch_item = atoi(argv[1]);

    

    switch (switch_item) {
        case opSave:
            //saveFile(argv[2], argv[3]);
            exec("cat /etc/network/interfaces", out);
            //out[0] = ' ';
            printf(out);

        

            return 0;

            

        case opSaveConnect:
            //saveFile(argv[2], argv[3]);
            //Connect(argv[2]);
            return 0;

            

        case opQueryConnect:

            

            return 0;

            

        case opDeleteConnect:

        

            break;

            

        case opConnectionConnect:

            

            break;

            

        case opDisconnectActiveConnection:

        

            break;

            

        case opScan:

            

            break;

            

        case opLoadExisting:

        

            return 0;
    }

    

    return -1; // parameter not in range
}
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On 17/08/2015, Rainer Weikusat <rainerweikusat@???> wrote:
> James Powell <james4591@???> writes:
>> While there are packages that can be invisible and unintrusive into
>> the system, there are some that cannot.
>>
>> The problem is responsibility.
>>
>> Who wants to remain responsible for boot scripts? Upstream or vendor?
>>
>> Who wants responsibility for providing interoperability between
>> projects? Upstream or downstream bazaar?
>>
>> Who wants responsibility for the userland? Upstream or the downstream
>> bazaar?
>
> It's possible to frame this in more technical terms: Who'll end up doing
> system integration, system integrators or application developers? The
> answer should (hopefully) be obvious.
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