The title sums it all up. thisisjnd has cross-posted multiple times on Stack Overflow, IT Security and here. Also, he posts the same question on the same site a second (or third) time, leading to duplicates. I'm not going to bother linking to all the questions, because it's super easy to find by ...
According to Unix C API calls ontopic? and the help center, "UNIX C API and System Interfaces ( within reason )" is explicitly on topic. That within reason links to the meta question.
Mounting a file system using a C program seems to fall within that. Note that:
mount(2) is seems like a common...
I think that discussion will end in "how is the question phrased" and we will get tangled in a series of nuances about the wording with subsequent questions
Having looked at this question, it is pretty clearly about Unix system programming, which would be in C by definition, but which is a small subset of C programming. This belongs on a Unix site if anything does, in my opinion. I'd suggest adding a clarification/exception to the no programming rule...
The line libext2fs.so.2 => /opt/appassure/lib64/libext2fs.so.2 (0x00007f7c126fc000) looks suspicious. Why is this installed in /opt? — Faheem Mitha1 min ago
How does one find out what package a file belong to?
rpm -qa filename or similar?
I installed Dell AppAssure (backup software) with the install.sh they provide. That's all. I can't answer why it's installed in /opt ... What can I do ? Sorry for being so newbie — Nico2 mins ago
What is Dell AppAssure and why are they installing libext2fs?
I'm trying to intercept clone system call so that i could print user id and process id before actual system call executes. I am using get_user_id()->uid to access user id in kernel module but it returns user id in kuid_t type which I can not cast to int. Is there any other way to do this?
I've ...
@strugee who tell you that i'm not doing any research effort ? please give me the result of what you find in google, can you find an explanation of how to update firefox on debian ??? there is just things like how to install, sorry but for me it's not clear because i have already firefox installed ! if google show you something magic i will be happy to see it. second thing this is really stupid the futur of downvote or upvote, i'm here to find help and also help others ;) — medBo6 hours ago
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FYI: Submitted a tag wiki for delete, but its in the edit queue since I'm not at 20k yet. Its a wiki that says not to use it. If you can vote on tags, please review.
delete seems like the most useless thing to me. It fails the adjective test (or whatever it's called): a question tagged with nothing but delete tells you nothing.
Can we burninate this tag?
(not sure how else to link to my proposed tag wiki)
and if you look at the questions tagged delete, its applied to all kinds of things—oops, I deleted my files, how do I delete this file, how do I remove a member from an archive, how do I uninstall a package...
(well, those are some of the ones I remember removing it from. So I guess its not on those anymore.)
So tempted to add an answer to the GNOME question saying "unfortunately, not true, the GNOME project will continue as long as their DE has any useful features left to remove."
@derobert So, what was with the feature removal thing? I heard rumors about it, but I've never used Gnome. I've used KDE since 1999, mostly without really paying any attention to it. It has been a pretty backdrop, like hanging flowered curtains.
I forget which feature it was when I finally yelled ENOUGH!. They had repeatedly made it more difficult to work with multiple desktops—for example, it wasn't possible to set the taskbar to show only iconified tasks from this desktop only.
The X Window System uses a client-server architecture. The X server runs on the machine that has the display (monitors + input devices), while X clients can run on any other machine, and connect to the X server using the X protocol (not directly, but rather by using a library, like Xlib, or the m...
@FaheemMitha yep. tl;dw: doing widgets serverside is an awful idea. everything's done clientside now anyway but they can't break the core protocol and so there's a ton of overhead
window manipulation (e.g. wobbly-windows) is done in the server. there's no concept of a window manager, because the window manager is the server. so it reduces a ton of IPC overhead.
@FaheemMitha yes. in Wayland there is no single "Wayland implementation" like there is for X11 (Xorg). window managers do compositing client-side anyway; the X11 server basically did nothing.
except bad IPC.
the talk is excellent; I would highly recommend it
Graphics cards got dedicated, very fast processors. Huge, constantly-changing pixmaps became very common. Font rendering changed. Display technologies changed. Display densities are no longer always <100ppi. Hardware is hot-pluggable, displays are routinely hot-plugged.
None of these were true when I got into computers in the mid-90s.
I've never done it. I don't know how many generic ones there are. Though the people doing it often want every drop of performance, so they don't want to pay abstraction penalties.
Sorry, my crystal ball was unable to determine what you did to install libnftnl-1.0.1 or the output of ./configure. It didn't even reveal what you're trying to compile. Clearly, I need a better crystal ball. In the meantime, you'll have to edit your question to add all this basic information. — Gilles56 secs ago
and I am no judge, just a fellow user of the site, but I like to take an active role in making sure the users of the site are well intention-ed. I have no power beyond asking others their thoughts on the matter and can only passively protest against would be spammers by directing my answering energies to real Q's
@Tim There is no judging involved. Sometimes we get malicious users who abuse the site. One of the ways bad users can be identified is by unusual patterns of activity. @slm thought that your question pattern might be strange, so he asked if other people also agreed. That's all.
So I hope you understand my position. I'm here to A Q's and to fill in holes that exist on the internet. The last thing I want to do is contribute a second of my A'ing time to fake Q's
@Tim - I have no interest in being a moderator, only in A'ing Q's and filling in voids that exist on the internet, and helping my fellow humans to get past blocking issues
@Tim - hence why I ask before assuming. I have the luxury of being on this site most of the time, and so see much more of the traffic then most, so when I see something I enlist the help of the others.
I encourage you to do so. Your Q's are usually well asked and are appreciated 8-)
Perhaps our paths will cross in the physical world and we can share a beer, I'd be very interested in what you do day to day that generates all the Q's 8-)
I believe we live not very far away from each other as far as Iknow. For more about someone similar to you, you might find it interesting if you haven't seen it meta.stats.stackexchange.com/questions/1665/…
> This is my ramble: My guiding rule is whether the question will help make an internet artefact that will be useful to others. Helping the person asking the question is a small good. Helping the thousands of people that eventually access many of the questions on this site is a big good.
According to Unix C API calls ontopic? and the help center, "UNIX C API and System Interfaces ( within reason )" is explicitly on topic. That within reason links to the meta question.
Mounting a file system using a C program seems to fall within that. Note that:
mount(2) is seems like a common...
I'm trying to intercept clone system call so that i could print user id and process id before actual system call executes. I am using get_user_id()->uid to access user id in kernel module but it returns user id in kuid_t type which I can not cast to int. Is there any other way to do this?
I've ...
On Drupal Answers, the number of meta posts shown in the "Community Bulletin" block is now 2. Previously, there was just a single meta post linked from that block, and it was a featured post; the total number of links was the same, as there were a link to an blog post more.
What are the criter...
