If I use a modified usb skeleton driver on Linux and I insmod the module with the USB device already plugged in, the probe function doesn't get called. I need to unplug and replug the device in order for the driver to be activated. This is not the case for e.g. the serial drivers, I made some tests. Is there a reason for this? How do I g...
What is the easiest and safest way to call a function from a shared library / dll? I am mostly interested in doing this on linux, but it would be better if there were a platform-independent way. Could someone provide example code to show how to make the following work, where the user has compiled his own version of foo into a shared lib...
I want to make a simple game: 2d, single-player, without tons of animations and special effects. I am not interested in ready to use game engines, I want to learn to write some code in a quite universal language. I am using Linux (AMD64) and looking for something easy with nice library for games. I do not want to mix few languages, most ...
Greetings everyone! I programmed GUI Application using Java Swing under Windows. Under windows everything works well. Now I am trying it under Linux (using distribution Linux Mint 7). I am getting and nasty StackOverflowException, when I call frame's dispose method! The problematic frame is JDialog component. Here is some output : ed...
Question: Is it possible to compile a program on linux using a .dll file? Where this is going: This .dll will be used to write a php extension to some proprietary software from a third party. Background and Research: I have been given a library called proprietary.lib. I was curious, as I have never seen the .lib extension before, so ...
Hello Can sendfile() linux syscall be used to send part of file from one mmaped file to other mmaped file? ...
I have a problem. I wrote example code and I want to build it without the error: main.cpp(.text+0x5): undefined reference to `test()' Library test1.c #include <stdlib.h> void test() { puts("Działa"); } test1.h #ifndef TEST1_H #define TEST1_H extern void test(); #endif makefile all: gcc -c ./src/test1.c -o ./lib/test1.o ...
e.g glibc on Linux/i386 stores the cookie at %gs:0x14. Are there any other platforms on which I need to look somewhere other than at the __stack_chk_guard symbol to find the cookie? (This is where the value that gcc -fstack-protector-generated code stores onto the stack in function prologues and checks before return to defend against st...
Hello Can I distinguish signal, between delivered directly to a process and delivered via debugger. Case 1: $ ./process1 process1 (not ptraced) //set up handler alarm(5); .... //signal is handled and I can parse handler parameters Case 2: $ debugger1 ./process1 process1 (is ptraced by debugger1) //set up handler alarm(5);...
Hi! I am new to C programming and I'd like to implement chmod command on files of a dir and subdir. How can I change/show permissions with a C code? Could someone help with a example? I would appreciate if anyone can provide me a code. ...
I search for way to synch my local code with server on debain linux. For example i modify some files, then i can run synch command, and only changed files send to server (using ssh for ex). Can you help me with good light solution for this? ...
Using C on Linux, how would I go about triggering a signal handler every time I write data to a buffer using the write() function. The handler will be reading all data written to the buffer at the time of execution. ...
Hello, I'm looking for a possibility to get the color of a pixel with given screen coordinates (x,y) in c++ / Linux? Maybe something similarly like getPixel() in Windows. I spent the whole day to find sth but without any success. Thanks, Stefan ...
I got a source for console program written in c++ for linux Is there a (automated) way to compile this source to run in windows? and what about linux functions and libraries called in this file? Thanks ...
Hi folks, We have a linux system (kubuntu 7.10) that runs a number of CORBA Server processes. The server software uses glibc libraries for memory allocation. The linux PC has 4G physical memory. Swap is disabled for speed reasons. Upon receiving a request to process data, one of the server processes allocates a large data buffer (usin...
I am making a desktop application to connect with an embedded device. I was going to use Windows but due to lack of proper examples and documentation I decided to go with Linux bluez development. Can someone suggest a good resource to go about programming for bluez. I found a MIT documentation but that was about it. ...
Hi all, I've been reading about what happens after packets are captured by NICs, and the more I read, the more I'm confused. Firstly, I've read that traditionally, after a packet is captured by the NIC, it gets copied to a block of memory in the kernel space, then to the user space for whatever application that then works on the packet...
I'm starting to learn Ubuntu 9.10. How can I retrieve all available Wifi networks programmatically? Can someone give an example? ...
Hi Do you know about any good library wrapping posix and linux functions and structures ( eg. sockets or file descriptors ) into C++ classes? For example I'm thinking about a base FileDescriptor class and some inheriting classes ( unix sockets etc ) with methods like write, read or even some syscalls ( sendfile, splice ) - all throwing ...
I have a php pipe script that receives an email, takes an attached *.csv from it and parses it. However, when the email is sent from where it is supposed to be coming from, it silently errors. But when I take that same email and resend it from my address it goes through just fine. is there any simple reason it could be doing this? ...