Given our community has been growing, and we seem to have a fairly active base, several of us thought now might be a good time to do some house cleaning on the site.
Given cleaning is a never ending task, we thought we'd set the bar low, to start, and take up a re-tagging effort on some of our ...
@strugee agreed. I just get pissed at people who want to update their system for no other reason than updating, then they run into bugs or incompatibilities and then they complain. Just give it a while to settle down, let the version mature, then update!
The system(const char *cmd) library function can be used to execute a command within a program. The way system(cmd) works is to invoke the /bin/sh program, and then let the shell program to execute cmd.
Because of the shell program invoked, calling system() within a Set-UID program is extremely ...
DESCRIPTION
system() executes a command specified in command by calling /bin/sh -c
command, and returns after the command has been completed. During exe‐
cution of the command, SIGCHLD will be blocked, and SIGINT and SIGQUIT
will be ignored.
@Williams - yes please post your question. The chatroom isn't meant to work problems, we can use it that way but you're better off to ask questions on the main site. Looking for specific users is hit or miss.
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I dual boot windows 7 64-bit and ubuntu 13.10 64-bit on separate disks, and utilize some overclocking from the BIOS. Windows works fine, however ubuntu can't seem to find any hard drives, except for at stock cpu speeds. While attempting to boot it says "Gave up waiting for root device..." and "AL...
@Achu what are you talking about? Have you posted a question? Is this in a VM? What host system? What guest OS? What command gives you that error? What is mounted where? What does df say?
If you cut open a pumpkin, the seeds are suspended inside the pumpkin by some fibrous, slimey strands. You can see them in the middle of this sliced-open pumpkin:
I'm writing a post for the Cooking.SE blog, and am trying to find out the proper botanical term. Someone suggested that might be ca...
I answered it a while back, I'm not sure what else can be added it to it. Sometimes the answer to Q's is that it just works that way and you have to just deal with it
i took his bounty to mean that he didn't like the way that it worked
If I run my DM as root (bad idea I know) I won't need polkit... actually what have poolkit to do with mounting FS apart of checking if the user has permissions or not to mount filesystems
The major problem is that lack of proper use of the terminology, so it's confusing to everyone, since one person is saying DE and another WM and they might be talking about the same thing, or not, who knows....
My answer I tried to keep the DE out of the discussion, b/c the correct answer is, "it depends". The link to this A seemed to have everything he needed for the original Q: unix.stackexchange.com/questions/8159/…
then it went off the rails with the bounty
not sure what to do to help at this point
I've been trying to upvote comments and such to bring attention the more relevant parts but I don't think it's working
the OP will likely walk away frustrated, not sure how to help him more
@strugee - would adding these links help or hurt that Q? https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Window_Manager https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Desktop_Environment https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Display_Manager
hehe, couldn't resist, I added my own answer. Much less detailed but I think that simplification (assuming I made no huge errors, don't understand it all that well) is what the OP was after.
Though the description from the udisk page makes me think it might, "...a daemon, udisksd, that implements well-defined D-Bus interfaces that can be used to query and manipulate storage devices...."
is something like udev detect the new hardware, tells dbus, gvfs and udisk hears dbus then ask polkit if the current user has mount privileges if yes then look if the device is configured to automount as soon is plugged or it should wait for user input... and so on...
basically it's a message protocol that goes over sockets. it's just an IPC mechanism
it adds a little bit of abstraction to raw socket APIs
@slm and I think those links would help if OP would actually look at them. I referred him to the Wikipedia page on DEs but apparently he didn't read it, since he kept talking about window managers
Given our community has been growing, and we seem to have a fairly active base, several of us thought now might be a good time to do some house cleaning on the site.
Given cleaning is a never ending task, we thought we'd set the bar low, to start, and take up a re-tagging effort on some of our ...
My current username is mpatil, how can I change that to algo without losing data or causing problems?
Suggestion for shell:
Let's limit this one to things only about the shell itself. Probably for Bourne-inspired shells, or maybe even only POSIX shell. Description (at least the long description) would also mention the shell-specific tags (bash, zsh, ksh, …)
Configuring shell variables (PS1, et...
