Consider this because this region maps the files like dynamically loaded libraries, i feel it should ideally grow up. this can be implemented by starting the mmap region between RLIMIT_STACK and heap beginning. what problems would occur in this case. if it grows down, then how is a new memory mapped region created. suppose we wish to ma...
I'd like to create a PowerPoint (not Javascript/HTML/PDF/Keynote/.mov) using code (any language, C preferred) for free. (I've seen this SO question which references how to create them in C#) Is this even possible? How can I write the raw bits that make up a PowerPoint file? Any good libraries for doing this? UPDATE The Microsoft Refer...
How I can see from shell what socket options are set? In particular I'm interesting to know if SO_BROADCAST is set? ...
Is there a way can I access machine diagnostic information within the Linux OS in realtime? Such diagnostic info as CPU utilization, memory utilization, etc using JavaScript to display on a web page? If there is no direct access from JavaScript, is there any other method where JS code can call functions in shared libraries (dll, etc.)?...
I have an x86-64 computer running Linux that I would like to supplement with other non-x86-64 Linux machines. Is it possible to somehow benefit from the computational power of another machine without it being the same architecture? As a second question, what kind of performance increases are available and does it require specialized so...
I'd built a version of gdb 7.0 for myself after being pointed to a new feature, and happened to have that in my path still. Attempting to step through some new code, I'd added a pause() call, expecting to be able to get out like so: (gdb) b 5048 Breakpoint 1 at 0x2b1811b25052: file testca.C, line 5048. (gdb) signal SIGCONT Continuing ...
I have a web-based bussines application written in C#/ASP.NET Recently my boss start pushing to re-write the app as Linux multi-user desktop application. In his design users will need to connect to Linux server via VNC or alike to use the app. I am not familiar with this kind of application design. I'd appretiate any help explainig pro...
Firstly, I'm relatively new to network programming. I want to intercept and delay HTTP traffic before it gets to the server application. I've delved into libnetfilter_queue which gives me all the information I need to delay suitably, but at too low a level. I can delay traffic there, but unless I accept the IP datagrams almost immediatel...
I have 2 audio files for primary and background music that I want to merge (not concatenate). The final audio file should be as long as the primary file, and if the background music is shorter then it should repeat. If there a Linux command or a Python library that can be used to do this? Sox supports merging, but does not appear to all...
Hi! All files in /dev are special files... they represent devices of the computer. They were created with the mknod syscall. My question is: How can I know the minor and major numbers that were used to create this special file? thanks! Manuel ...
How I can see from shell what socket options are set? In particular I'm interesting to know if SO_BROADCAST is set? ...
Hi all: Background: I have used JsTestDriverCoverage and generated a test coverage report for my Javascript unit tests. However it is in LCOV format. As a Windows user running on Windows 2003, I can't just read the file since its perl/lunix friendly. Question: are there any ways to either convert the file to a more readable format (u...
Hello. I'd like to change the value of an array and would appreciate any help. I got an array like this: users=(root isometric akau) (This is actually a list of current users) that I'd like to be able to test if the user exists and if they do not, then to remove the person from the array. I've tried experiment with this by putting ...
I detect this using strace: 8480 execve("/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-slackware-linux/3.3.4/../../../../i486-slackware-linux/bin/ld", [ "/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-slackware-linux/3.3.4/../../../../i486-slackware-linux/bin/ld", ... "-L/home/bjack/lib", ... "-rpath-link", "/root/src/firmware/Bj-bg/ab-BJ-gameprom-modules/src/dis...
I am running ubuntu server with Subversion 1.6.6. In windows I use the latest Tortoise SVN compiled against Subversion 1.6.6. I create a new Repository and when I attempt to view the repository or import my files and get the following error: "Could not open the requested SVN filesystem" I can view the repositories via the command lin...
In case of "bug" in port driver using locking is not acceptable. ...
How can you combine AIO and epoll together in a single event loop? Google finds lots of talk from 2002 and 2003 about unifying them, but its unclear if anything happened, or if it's possible. Has anyone rolled-their-own with an epoll loop using eventfd for the aio signal? ...
Based on some Linux distributions can do commercial OS? Can I distribute such a system without source code? ...
I'm looking for either a kernel mode call that I can make from a driver, a userland utility, or a system call that will ask the Kernel to look at the PCI bus and either completely re-run its initialization, or initialize a specific device. Specifically, I need the Kernel to recognize a device that was added to the bus after boot and the...
Hi, In linux this code doesn't work: I added two lines // Added two lines. DataLine.Info info = new DataLine.Info( SourceDataLine.class, audioFormat ); SourceDataLine dataLine = (SourceDataLine) AudioSystem.getLine( info ); // Adjust the volume on the output line. if( dataLine.isControlSupported( FloatControl.Type.MASTER_GAIN)) { /...