yes it certainly does. But it helped me wonder around and learn, among other things, that down votes on questions are 'painless' aka reputation free.
quick question: about 'what to do if...'
yesterday i 'reacted' to an incorrect answer (that was either later deleted or edited). As I could not comment (yesterday) I added an answer that corrected the bad answer - but did not literally answer the question. Now I learned to pay more attention to ANSWERING THE QUESTION - so all is okay, but - is it fair-play to edit "my" answer and invalidate the comment?
I thought "mask" the status value was an explanation - but not being a regualt shell scripter am (read was) unaware of the power of -e - I shall use it for script debugging.
back to not being a regular shell programmer - I use exit status of previous commands - a lot - and having an easy way to mask something that is going to return an error status (now is okay) but not in the future - I could see some potential for the 'development phase'. That said, I would prefer to not see it used in production.
Something I learned over 30 years ago from someone who trained me to take over his role of packaging. (in that case not to use wildcards to add/remove files - aka do not let globals give you a feeling that all is okay. Be specific.)
@user334283 so if you formulate your question well, show what you have tried, what configs you have, what you expect to happen, then you might even get an upvote on your question.
@ojs - the tricky part: IF - if you formulate your question WELL. I find it very hard to formulate a question, if I do not know some basics, at a minumum.
@maulinglawns yup it would be easy in kali linux forums if threads posted by new users were not approved by moderators when they are not itself very active
@user334283 I don't know why you were downvoted. Your question seems perfectly reasonable. One thing that would improve it is if you didn't post images of text. But apart from that and a bit of formatting I don't see why you would have been downvoted.
A lot of people here hate Kali questions because they are often very very bad with no research and asked by people who think they want Kali because Kali is cool and don't really understand what it is for.
Use 4 spaces for code, not <br/> tags or >. Also, please don't post images of text. They are harder to read, heavier to load and just a pain.
Finally, @user334283. I suggest you start your question from the beginning. Explain what the issue with your interface is. You are starting by explaining the solution you think you need, but that might be wrong. This is a typical XY problem.
yeah I'm visiting most of the questions of this site to learn how questions should be posted though I've good knowledge of posting and answering on other SE sites
@user334283 re: your make issue. my guess is that the sources are not fully portable. try make V=1 xxx to get more verbose output (such as what flags are defined). Also, in the source that is not compiling, examine what "include" files it is loading and/or if there is a marco used to add a non-standard struct/union member.
another hint: try make -i to let that finish as much as it can regardless (ignore mode), then run make V=1 -i to get all the errors in verbose mode. Otherwise it can be quite time consuming to find and correct all errors - especially working in a Q&A method
@user334283 Ah, that's fair enough. If you do need to post an image for that sort of reason, it might help if you mention it ("Posting a screenshot because I can't copy/paste from this machine") or something.
i have had the bug for 20 years, if not longer. Just not here. my portal was once upon a time "important" aka first AIX portal - I changed the URL for the forums and google dropped me - never recovered.
and I got my 'day award' - do not expect to have the silver one soon though - "Earn at least 200 reputation (the daily maximum) in a single day" - so I feel rewarded and the "bug is well fed"
@MichaelFelt the description that you give in your user page on unix has a typo in one of the urls, www/rootvg.net instead of www.rootvg.net (and the last link does not work either, dl.aixtools.net)
what about when someone changes the question - and, imho, the answer becomes less accurate. the original question was "help me with diff" with incident 'what does ! mean". Because my answer does not try to explain the meaning of !, instead I went through the purpose of some of the different diff options, noteable diff -u
Now my answer looks like I cannot read the question.
