-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 07/24/07 01:39, Matthias wrote: > Hello, > >> But that means that Debian Developers are the way that "Linux" (the >> kernel? libc?, something else?) are deeply changing The Way Unix Works. >> >> And I just don't believe they'd do that. For one thing, they're all >> pretty busy, and making such deep changes to every new version of >> upstream would be "time consuming". >> >> Have you tried Fedora, SuSE, Slackware, etc? > > My system started with a Slackware base, now heavily mofified to run > slack/RH style programs. The kernal has two flavors at least, the AC > version and the LT version. I am most familst with these. Hurrd is a > third version, but I am not that familar with it. AC (Alan Cox) and > LT (Linus Torvalds) actually have very slight differences that have an > impact on the low level functions. Libc adds to this along with > different platforms (i386, so on) > > One of the classic C functions that illustrates this the best in > gethostbyname_r. Some systems require 6 arguments, others 4. POSIIX > vs SUSv2. Not having a debian system I can test means I could easily > miss a very fine detail. > > Here's the man page 7 of signal: > > Signal Value Action Comment > [snip] > > You'll notice that certain signals have multiple numbers. Also the > difference between POSIX and SUSv2. Such slight differences can have > very slight but dramatic results on the operations of a program. > > It is important to know that all linux developers (kernel et all) are > striving to gain the best utilization of current and new hardware. At > times, this does have an impact of low level functions and their > APIs. Its really the only way to move forward and progress.
Write a small do-nothing program that lets me test the USR & HUP signals. Make it simple enough that a poor C programmer can understand it. I'll compile and run it, then send you the results. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGpgsYS9HxQb37XmcRAtgYAKCXra3b8ZpJeAHsaLssVbkj431bfwCgo1LC 5CQVwLLUi1v2pV/o+B4yh/0= =FvTW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]