[Haifux] ipc

2005-01-12 Thread yakoub abaya
what is the difference between two processes communicating through a normal file discriptor and a fifo pipe discriptor ? p0: mkfifo(myfifo,) int fd=open(myfifo,O_RDONLY..) read(myfifo,buff...) p1: int fd=open(myfifo,O_WRONLY..) write(myfifo,buff)

[Haifux] Xen and the art of giving talks

2005-01-12 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
Dear Haifuxians, Would you care to hear a talk on virtualization, hypervisors and Xen[1][2]? Topics to be covered include a general introduction, design and implementation of Xen, the new Xen 2.0 IO model and future plans. [1] http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/index.html [2] A

[Haifux] [HAIFUX LECTURE] C Without a Spoon- Programming in C in a free software environment - CPP gcc - Orna Agmon

2005-01-12 Thread Orna Agmon
Next Monday (10/1/2005), 18:30, the Haifa Linux Club will once again meet to hear Orna Agmon talk about: C Without a Spoon Programming in C in a free software environment On this unit we will learn about the CPP - C Pre Processor, and about gcc - the free C compiler, and

[Haifux] Test,please ignore

2005-01-12 Thread Orr Dunkelman
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[Haifux] man

2005-01-12 Thread yakoub abaya
when doing man read (for example ) i get in that last line , the usual see also comment where it says :close(2), ...,write(2)...,lseek(2) Q: what is the number following in the parentheses ? (-- 2 in write(2) ) if i do man write it doesn't show info about c language write command so i suppose

[Haifux] man

2005-01-12 Thread yakoub abaya
when doing man read (for example ) i get in that last line , the usual see also comment where it says :close(2), ...,write(2)...,lseek(2) Q: what is the number following in the parentheses ? (-- 2 in write(2) ) if i do man write it doesn't show info about c language write function so i suppose

Re: [Haifux] Xen and the art of giving talks

2005-01-12 Thread Orr Dunkelman
yes. On Wed, 12 Jan 2005, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: Dear Haifuxians, Would you care to hear a talk on virtualization, hypervisors and Xen[1][2]? Topics to be covered include a general introduction, design and implementation of Xen, the new Xen 2.0 IO model and future plans. [1]

[Haifux] Error in mailing list

2005-01-12 Thread Orr Dunkelman
Due to some server-side error (my fault for not finding out this earlier), mails sent to haifux in the last few days (since last Friday), miight arrive out-of-order and out-of-date. In case your mail doesn't arrive in the following few hours, please contact me personally, and I'll check to see

[Haifux] Re: man

2005-01-12 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Tuesday 11 January 2005 23:51, yakoub abaya wrote: when doing man read (for example ) i get in that last line , the usual see also comment where it says :close(2), ...,write(2)...,lseek(2) Q: what is the number following in the parentheses ? (-- 2 in write(2) ) This is the section of

Re: [Haifux] man

2005-01-12 Thread Ori Idan
yakoub abaya wrote: when doing man read (for example ) i get in that last line , the usual see also comment where it says :close(2), ...,write(2)...,lseek(2) Q: what is the number following in the parentheses ? (-- 2 in write(2) ) The number is the man section number Sections are: 1 Executable

Re: [Haifux] ipc

2005-01-12 Thread Baruch Even
yakoub abaya wrote: what is the difference between two processes communicating through a normal file discriptor and a fifo pipe discriptor ? [Transfer by a fifo vs. a shared file] The difference is that the file is stored in the filesystem, and if the processes have a lot to talk about it is

Re: [Haifux] Xen and the art of giving talks

2005-01-12 Thread avivgoll
yes very much On Wednesday 12 January 2005 11:52, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: Dear Haifuxians, Would you care to hear a talk on virtualization, hypervisors and Xen[1][2]? Topics to be covered include a general introduction, design and implementation of Xen, the new Xen 2.0 IO model and future

Re: [Haifux] man

2005-01-12 Thread Oron Peled
On Wednesday 12 January 2005 18:04, Ori Idan wrote: yakoub abaya wrote: Q: what is the number following in the parentheses ? (-- 2 in write(2) ) The number is the man section number Sections are: ... Ori, you gave him fish (good ones I must admit), but he need also a fishing pole (AKA

Re: [Haifux] Xen and the art of giving talks

2005-01-12 Thread Oron Peled
Yes, Comparisons to other free (Qemu, Bochs,...) and non-free (vmware) are of course welcome... -- Oron Peled Voice/Fax: +972-4-8228492 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.actcom.co.il/~oron ICQ UIN: 16527398 If it's there and you can see it, it's REAL If

[Haifux] module directives ?

2005-01-12 Thread yakoub abaya
i've been reading about driver porting to kerne2.6 the section about block device . they write : static int __init sbd_init(void); __init static void __exit sbd_exit(void); __exit module_init(sbd_init); module_exit(sbd_exit); Q: what is __init and __exit ? are they

[Haifux] signal

2005-01-12 Thread yakoub abaya
when doing man signal : there is : typdef void (*sighandler_t)(int); Q:what is this typdef ?, i don't understand it { i know that i can provide interrupt handler function with signal(...,...) } -- Haifa Linux

Re: [Haifux] module directives ?

2005-01-12 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 08:31:30AM +0200, yakoub abaya wrote: i've been reading about driver porting to kerne2.6 the section about block device . they write : static int __init sbd_init(void); __init static void __exit sbd_exit(void); __exit module_init(sbd_init);

Re: [Haifux] signal

2005-01-12 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 08:35:20AM +0200, yakoub abaya wrote: when doing man signal : there is : typdef void (*sighandler_t)(int); Q:what is this typdef ?, i don't understand it It says that sighandler_t has the type pointer to a function that accepts an int and returns void. Consult