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Braiam

12:40 AM

@FaheemMitha Just Do It™

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Anthon

5:30 AM

@FaheemMitha Wouldn't that indicate you are not human, and get you blocked being a dolphin?

Faheem Mitha

6:07 AM

@Anthon Only if they have read the Hitchhiker's Guide. Also, I doubt dolphins can manage keyboards.

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Gilles

7:32 AM

$ echo foo | mksh -c 'echo $(<&0)'
mksh: funny $() command: <&0

@mirabilos what's so funny about duplicating fd 0 to itself?

Faheem Mitha

7:57 AM

I voted for this one to go to SO

Q: Using log4cxx API in C?

I correctly installed i386 .deb package of log4cxx, and I want to know what are next steps to use this API. I'm new to this, still learning, I understand that log4cxx is an C++ API, but why we need it installed, instead of just using C++ examples of log4cxx . I would like someone to explain me th...

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terdon

11:08 AM

@Gilles why is this off topic?

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Q: HDIO_GETGEO and HDIO_GET_IDENTITY in Linux using C++

Can anyone explain the core difference between HDIO_GETGEO and HDIO_GET_IDENTITY. From Linux documentation I know that the former is for getting device geometry and the latter for getting IDE identification info. Which HDIO_ ioctl call should I use to get the no. of sectors and bytes per sector ...

hard-disk ioctl cpp

Aren't those kernel calls or whatever? I thought we had decided that kind of thing is on topic.

Gilles

11:58 AM

@terdon programming questions are off-topic

this was decided back in August 2010

the guy is writing a C++ program, he should ask on SO

discussion of system calls and ioctl values can be on-topic in a user/sysadmin context, e.g. “what does this strace output mean?”

when someone is writing a program that isn't a simple automation script, it's off-topic

Faheem Mitha

12:13 PM

@terdon This is still pretty much a grey area, I think. Apparently @Gilles disagrees.

terdon

12:54 PM

@Gilles I don't really know what HDIO_GETGEO and HDIO_GET_IDENTITY are but he seems to be asking for their meaning rather than how to use them in a program. I can easily imagine an answer with no code at all. If those are part of the UNIX API and he's asking for an explanation of what they do, that sounds like it should be on topic.

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