On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 11:21 +0200, Esben Nielsen wrote:
On Tue, 6 Sep 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 07 Sep 2005 00:20:11 +0200, Esben Nielsen said:
Which is too bad. You can do stuff much more elegant, effectively and
safer in C++ than in C. Yes, you can do inheritance in C,
On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 14:04 +0200, Budde, Marco wrote:
[...]
Yes, this is a general problem with integrated c/c++ stuff like
Win-Visual C++.
not all Windows users do not know what they are doing :-).
Speaking for myself: I am programming under Linux and
Windows (with more than 10 years
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On Fre, 2012-09-14 at 08:30 -0400, Jim Rees wrote:
Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:
[...]
A pure KR-C version would use a string:
snip
#define base10len(i) \0x1\0x3\0x5\0x8\0x0A\0x0D\0x0F\0x11\0x14[sizeof(i)]
snip
(if I converted them properly into hexadecimal
.
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this question silly?
That all is actually pure (KR-)C and has nothing to do with the kernel.
static const int value = 123;
[...]
EXPORT_SYMBOL(value);
I wonder if we can modify EXPORT_SYMBOL() so that it compile-time-fails
for static variables.
And if we actually want that.
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and an array (and
these are vastly different), go learn something new about C.
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reserved_maps,
num_maps);
if (ret 0) {
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other parts (compilers,
virtualization, ...) or they developing to slow *for you*, help them and
send patches there but do not try to lure others into fighting your
cause.
Sorry to all others for feeding the troll,
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On Fre, 2012-08-24 at 14:59 +0200, wbrana wrote:
On 8/24/12, Bernd Petrovitsch be...@petrovitsch.priv.at wrote:
[...]
And you obviously never thought about embedded devices.
Servers, laptops, notebooks and desktop computers are not the whole
computing world - and from the pure numbers
. Trolling does not help
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not
believe that you will keep to it (and I seriously doubt that anyone
believes that).
Go troll somewhere else. Thank you.
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On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 01:37 +1030, David Newall wrote:
[...]
disadvantage Linux with respect to many classes of devices, for example
GSM transceivers when used in those parts of the world^ where regulatory
requirements prohibit modification of power or frequency settings, which
effectively
On Die, 2008-02-05 at 21:48 +1030, David Newall wrote:
Bernd Petrovitsch writes:
On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 01:37 +1030, David Newall wrote:
[...]
disadvantage Linux with respect to many classes of devices, for example
GSM transceivers when used in those parts of the world^ where regulatory
On Fre, 2008-02-08 at 10:51 +0530, rohit h wrote:
Hi,
I am a kernel newbie.
I tried to insmod a C++ module containing classes, inheritance.
I am getting 'unresolved symbol' error when I use the 'new' keyword.
What could the problem be?
That you used C++ is the problem. Use plain C and
On Mit, 2008-01-16 at 08:48 -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote:
On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Johannes Weiner wrote:
is there any reason why kfree() takes a const pointer just to degrade it
with the call to slab_free()/__cache_free() again? The promise that the
pointee is not modified is just bogus
On Sun, 2007-11-04 at 14:49 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
[...]
actually, one wonders if there's any value in keeping any references
to other version control systems such as subversion, SCCS, CVS,
mercurial, etc.
Lots of people have their working trees in CVS, Subversion,
So it probably
://www.bellard.org/jslinux/.
http://www.bellard.org/jslinux/tech.html says that it (also) lacks an
FPU.
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On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 15:58 +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
No, a process also contains an address space.
Of course .. I ment they are _almoust_ similar.
Not really. A process has one or more threads, (virtual) memory, open
file descriptors, a uid, a gid and several other resources.
On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 23:38 -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
On Jun 13, 2007, Daniel Hazelton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wednesday 13 June 2007 19:49:23 Alexandre Oliva wrote:
Exactly. They don't. What TiVO prevents is using that modified version on
their hardware. And they have that
On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 05:05 -0400, Daniel Hazelton wrote:
On Thursday 14 June 2007 04:37:55 Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:
[...]
covered by the GPL.
Indeed, TiVO has this legal right. But then they must not use
Do they? At least in .at, it is usually impossible to (legally) limit
On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 19:37 -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
On Jun 14, 2007, Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
For many juridisctions loading from disk into memory is copying and in
some from memory to CPU cache a second copy. This is one reason as I
understand it GPLv3 talks about
On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 12:17 +0530, debian developer wrote:
[...]
And *Please* do not top-post!
Says the one without real name who is full quoting including even the
mailing list footers.
SCNR,
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On Sun, 2007-06-17 at 15:55 -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
On Jun 17, 2007, Gabor Czigola [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I wonder why the linux kernel development community couldn't propose
an own GPL draft (say v2.2) that is as free as v2 and that includes
some ideas (from v3) that are
On Sun, 2007-06-17 at 18:07 -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
[...]
However, as Ingo argued, not being able to patch holes, fix bugs and
add new features is a very bad idea. He was talking about the
software, but this is as true when it comes to the license.
Yes, but the license of the license of
On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 20:12 +0100, Jack Stone wrote:
H. Peter Anvin wrote:
Chris Snook wrote:
I pointed out NetApp's .snapshot directories because that's a method
that uses legal path character, but doesn't break anything. With this
method, userspace tools will have to be taught that :
On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 18:14 -0300, Tomas Neme wrote:
[]
Why, if you let user-compiled kernels to run in a TiVo, it might be
modified so the TiVo can be used to pirate-copy protected content,
Or it might be modified to fix a bug - either a technical one or a legal
one as described below.
On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 00:57 +0200, Zoltán HUBERT wrote:
[...]
Well, I'm using SuSE Pro 9.3 (excellent choice by the way),
Perhaps in April 2005. And if I read
http://www.pro-linux.de/security/7043 correctly it is unsupported
anyways (sorry, I can't find a date on that page).
ATM there are
On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 11:19 +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote:
On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 23:49 +0200, Zoltán HUBERT wrote:
While some of you dislike
closed source drivers, the choices we users face are:
- closed source drivers with closed source OS
- closed source drivers with open source OS
You
On Sat, 2007-06-23 at 14:17 +0200, Grozdan Nikolov wrote:
[...]
Please CC me as I'm not subscribe to this mailing list,
Perhaps you should change that and find most answers for yourself.
Thanks!
Thanks!
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On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 14:38 +0530, Nitin Gupta wrote:
[...]
On 5/18/07, Andrey Panin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 138, 05 18, 2007 at 03:28:31PM +0530, Nitin Gupta wrote:
+ register const unsigned char *ip;
register keyword is meaningless for today's compiler.
But can we assume
an impact on the generated code.
Using struct assignment keeps the type check and is just for this reason
always preferable over memcpy().
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On Mit, 2014-03-19 at 14:39 +0100, Peter Senna Tschudin wrote:
On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 1:02 PM, Bernd Petrovitsch
be...@petrovitsch.priv.at wrote:
On Die, 2014-03-18 at 22:11 +0100, Peter Senna Tschudin wrote:
The Coccinelle script scripts/coccinelle/misc/memcpy-assign.cocci look
but
also (glibcs) manual page- doesn't guarantee -1 or +1 either,
MfG,
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On Mit, 2014-07-09 at 16:54 -0400, Nick Krause wrote:
[... useless quotes deleted ...]
Thanks for the help. Hope this message is better makes sense to me.
And always quoting everything is bad mail style too - just quote just
the relevant parts for the answer, not more, not less.
Everyone
Hi!
On Fre, 2014-07-11 at 15:30 +0300, Andrey Utkin wrote:
[...]
Could you please substantiate this? I see that convert_arg has type
unsigned int which may be 8 bytes on 64-bit platform. I haven't
At least in the x86_64 world, unsigned int has 32bit.
TTBOMK, it is similar on all other 64bit -
On Die, 2014-07-08 at 11:33 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
[...]
diff --git a/kernel/sched/deadline.c b/kernel/sched/deadline.c
index fc4f98b1258f..e1e24eea8061 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/deadline.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/deadline.c
@@ -999,8 +999,7 @@ static void start_hrtick_dl(struct rq *rq,
On Mit, 2014-07-30 at 07:56 -0600, Bob Beck wrote:
Pavel. I have bit 'ol enterprise daemon running with established file
descriptors serving thousands of connections
which periodically require entropy. Now I run out of descriptors. I
can't establish new connections. but I should
now halt all
On Don, 2014-07-31 at 00:18 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
On Wed 2014-07-30 16:40:52, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:
On Mit, 2014-07-30 at 07:56 -0600, Bob Beck wrote:
Pavel. I have bit 'ol enterprise daemon running with established file
descriptors serving thousands of connections
which
On Fre, 2014-10-03 at 07:23 -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote:
On Fri, 3 Oct 2014, Paul Bolle wrote:
dc -e 1 k 2 32 ^ 1000 / 86400 / p
49.7
(That was the number I remembered from stories about a ancient Windows
lockup.)
Well yes, I used bc which discards the remainder on integer
On Die, 2015-03-17 at 19:43 +0530, Arjun Sreedharan wrote:
[...]
On a related note, IMO strcmp() should return {-1,0,1} since many
programmers just expect this behavior. just my opinion.
-ENOPATCH.
MfG,
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On Don, 2015-03-19 at 10:34 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
On 03/17/2015 07:13 AM, Arjun Sreedharan wrote:
On a related note, IMO strcmp() should return {-1,0,1} since many
programmers just expect this behavior. just my opinion.
One doesn't change an API just for a claimed expection for an
Hi all!
On Die, 2015-04-21 at 09:37 -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
[...]
This has long been sort of the 'party line' and I've told many people
this on the dbus mailing list over the years (almost exactly what you
just said - that for performance-critical cases they should open a
direct socket
On Don, 2015-04-30 at 14:54 +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 02:40:04PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
scripts/get_maintainer.pl is bringing up your name for this file as you
have modified it in the past:
I've probably modified a large part of files in the kernel
On Mon, 2015-07-20 at 12:50 -0500, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
[...]
It's perhaps distasteful, but it improves performance. And I'm a
pragmatist at heart ;-)
And you measured the time gain guaranteeing that it actually saves that
much time. Usually that isn't actually measurable
And the usual
user" friendly.
User-friendlyness is not the job of the kernel ...
[ Fullquote deleted as it's a bad habit ]
MfG,
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Hi all!
On Fri, 2016-07-22 at 16:58 +0100, Charles Keepax wrote:
[...]
> case IRQF_TRIGGER_RISING:
> case IRQF_TRIGGER_FALLING:
> break;
> -
> - case IRQ_TYPE_NONE:
> default:
Don't know about the kernels coding rule in
code settings.
Which is not explained here.
> Would others like to help in approaches for checking corresponding
> run time changes a bit more?
You propose the patch and others should do the work to get it accepted?
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ctly?
> >
> > Why don't _you_ try to implement that in checkpatch instead?
>
> How are the chances that any other software developer would be
> quicker (than me) for such
> an addition because of more practical knowledge for the programming
> language "Perl"
t anyone
can *easily* follow it to check and reproduce the results - especially
if you want people with knowledge of other architectures to comment
(otherwise they probably won't bother).
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/*
Why not get rid of the trivial wrapper function completely?
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), GFP_KERNEL);
doesn't do and the compiler doesn't complain.
And the typeof() version could be written that way today but I can't
remember seeing it (in the kernel and elsewhere).
MfG,
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practically the rights to be able to do everything.
MfG,
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en your driver prints "blah: foo bar error 49",
> just run a little program that converts 49 to .
Userspace can just guess if a given "49" is an errno or not ...
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gt; warning
> > makes sense in general as explained in mannual. Thanks!
>
> The destination should be a null terminated string eventually, but we first
> need
> to make sure src is a null terminated string.
Is there strnlen() or memchr() in the kernel?
Then check the source before copyi
aps it is more
acceptable/useful if there is a mount option which must be activated on
the backup filesystems and that is not activated anywhere else.
MfG,
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efficient.
That's the price for security as it requires proper permissions.
Or is this a root-only syscall?
MfG,
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just wondering if it wouldn't be even more safe to use text/plain
(instead of application/octet-stream) as the default MIME type if one
wants to avoid to be misused to send viruses etc.
MfG,
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web interface and a SNMP agent (hacked net-smtp as we had
our own configuration daemon and needed SNMP only as a transport
protocol).
[...]
MfG,
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[0]: Every byte counts and size does matter;-)
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ress.
IMHO you cannot "publish" already published stuff.
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pEpkey.asc
Description: application/pgp-keys
e found in lots of publicly
accessible git repos can be not intended to be published?
I wonder what else must happen.
> public -- it is intended for those who code or wish to.
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pEpkey.asc
Description: application/pgp-keys
ying you (and the rest is usually not
enough to get anything revoked).
I don't see why that should be any different with GPLv2 patches for the
Kernel sent to public mailinglists with the intent of inclusion.
Please get back to the issue and circumstances at hand and do not try to
divert people w
ware/systems out there that uses 64bit CPUs
(for whatever reason - if only that one can't get a 32bit CPU for that
board) but will never ever need more than 2-3 GB RAM .
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ctively)
but not for other languages (e.g. German) where capital letters quite
common.
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main. The least significant two octets contain
the DI, which is an Internet Autonomous System number.
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On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 09:34 +0100, Paolo Ciarrocchi wrote:
[...]
> So... why is Gentoo the only distro the uses parallel execution of
> init scripts ?
Because no other distro bothered to implement it.
Apart from that we as quite far off-topic for LKML since this has
nothing to do with kernel.
On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 09:55 +0100, Helge Hafting wrote:
[...]
> The init-script dependencies are specifies already - at least on debian.
These are not dependencies but "only" the sequence of startup (and it is
not only Debian but also Fedora/RedHat, SuSE, Mandrake and probably all
except Gentoo).
On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 14:20 +0100, Helge Hafting wrote:
> Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:
> >On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 09:55 +0100, Helge Hafting wrote:
[...]
> >These are not dependencies but "only" the sequence of startup (and it is
> >not only Debian but also Fedora/RedHat,
On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 22:03 +0100, Oliver Antwerpen wrote:
> Matthias-Christian Ott schrieb:
> > Oliver Antwerpen wrote:
> >> SuSE has patched UNICON into the kernel which will cause these servers
> >> to hang when booted with vga=normal. The system will run fine in
> >> fb-mode, but not in
On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 09:08 -0300, Humberto Massa wrote:
> Adrian Bunk wrote:
> >Debian doesn't seem to care much about the possible legal problems of
> >patents.
You have lots of "possible legal problems" of any kind. Basically
everyone can sue you for (almost) whatever he wants almost all ofth
On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 17:37 -0600, Chris Friesen wrote:
> Richard B. Johnson wrote:
>
> > No. Accompany it with a written offer to __provide__ the source
> > code for any GPL stuff they used (like the kernel or drivers).
> > Anything at the application-level is NOT covered by the GPL.
That
On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 16:55 +0100, Raphael Jacquot wrote:
[...]
> as your name appears european, there are no software patents (yet ?) so
Alas, this is wrong. The EPO is issuing masses of software patents since
years (though they are more or less explicitly[0] excluded from
patentability in the
On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 13:40 -0800, Rock Gordon wrote:
> Lemme explain my problem a little bit more I have
> a thread that does exactly similar things in
> kernel-mode and user-mode (depending on how you
> invoked it; of course, the kernel one is forked using
> kernel_thread(), and the user
On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 15:24 +0530, root wrote:
> i want run my program as a daemon..its like normal
> how to do that
> service squid start
Look into /etc/init.d/squid (or wherever your distribution puts the
SysV-Init startup files) on how to write a similar script for your
daemon.
And BTW this
On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 22:05 -0300, Horst von Brand wrote:
> Chris Friesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
[...]
> > Maybe I'm on crack, but would it not be technically possible to have all
> > resource usage be tracked so that when a task tries to do something and
> > hangs, eventually it gets cleaned
On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 21:28 -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
> Gene Heskett wrote:
> >On Wednesday 02 March 2005 21:36, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
> >>Another Linux patent.
... and another - AFAICS obvious - trivial ("prior art") patent (but I'm
not fluent in patent quak, I'm just a simple systems
On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 01:21 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
[...]
> It brings up another sore point with me. I'm of the opinion that both
> copyright, and patent, should be granted to the author/inventor on a
> non-transferable basis. He could then sell rights to use it for a
ACK. This would kill
On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 13:11 -0700, Trever L. Adams wrote:
[...]
> It is Article 1 Section 8. It also says they shall have that power and
> that the intent is to promote the advances of arts and sciences. It
Actually the current (ab)use of the patent system (both in the USA and
by the EPO under
On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 14:19 -0600, Alejandro Bonilla wrote:
[...]
> I watched some commercials and I almost puked when I looked at the
> Microsoft Get the Facts for Linux vs Windows Server stuff.
>
> They have a url which is http://www.microsoft.com/getthefacts
Yes, this propaganda exists
On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 09:54 +0530, raja wrote:
[...]
> Is There Any function in c to caliculate the exact time taken to
> execute block of code(in micro sec and milli sec and minuits and hours).
> thanking you,
Do you mean system-time, user-space-time or the time it took in the real
On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 15:01 -0400, Patrick McFarland wrote:
[...]
> cheap even if gas is $5 per gallon (predicted price for 2006). Better than
We have here (in Austria/Europe) ATM 1.11 € for one liter of 91 Octane
gasoline. Diesel oil is slightly (a few Cents) less. And it will
probably rise
On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 20:00 -0400, Daniel B. wrote:
> Alan Cox wrote:
> > On Sul, 2005-06-19 at 18:55, Pavel Machek wrote:
[...]
> > > If we are serious about utf-8 support in ext3, we should return
> > > -EINVAL if someone passes non-canonical utf-8 string.
> >
> > That would ironically not be
On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 16:38 -0800, Casey Schaufler wrote:
[...]
> The argument that a hardware company usually
> invokes is that, while they don't give a horse's
> pitute about the software itself, they do care
> about the information the software contains
> about their hardware. The concern is
On Fri, 2006-12-22 at 12:59 +0100, Erik Mouw wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 01:16:15PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > At least nVidia *does* actually Get It, they just don't have a choice in
> > implementing it, because all their current hardware includes patents that
> > they licensed from
On Thu, 2006-12-28 at 09:54 +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Dec 27 2006 17:10, Pavel Machek wrote:
>
> >> Was just wondering if the _var_ in kfree(_var_) could be set to
> >> NULL after its freed. It may solve the problem of accessing some
> >> freed memory as the kernel will crash since _var_
On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 16:30 +1000, Trent Waddington wrote:
[...]
> I think you're repeating a myth that has become a common part of
> hacker lore in recent years. It's caused by how little we know about
> software patents. The myth is that if you release source code which
> violates someone's
On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 21:26 +1000, Trent Waddington wrote:
> On 1/2/07, Bernd Petrovitsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > While this is true (at last in theory), there is one difference in
> > practice: It is *much* easier to prove a/the patent violation if you
> > have (
On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 17:38 +0900, Miles Bader wrote:
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> @@ -157,7 +157,7 @@
> #define find_first_zero_bit(addr, size) \
>find_next_zero_bit ((addr), (size), 0)
>
> -extern __inline__ int find_next_zero_bit (void *addr, int size, int offset)
> +extern __inline__ int
On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 22:12 -0500, Matt Domsch wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 06:07:41PM -0600, Moore, Eric Dean wrote:
[...]
> > What you illustrated above is not going to work.
> > If your doing #ifndef around a function, such as scsi_device_online, it's
> > not going to compile
> > when
On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 14:16 +0200, Bastiaan Naber wrote:
[...]
> I have a 15 GB file which I want to place in memory via tmpfs. I want to do
> this because I need to have this data accessible with a very low seek time.
Apart fromn the 32-vs-64bit thing: Isn't it enough (and simpler and more
On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 11:12 +0200, Stefan Smietanowski wrote:
[...]
> On a 64bit machine:
> $ gcc test.c -o test64 ; ./test64; file ./test64
> sizeof(void *): 8
> sizeof(size_t): 8
> test64: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, AMD x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), for
> GNU/Linux 2.4.0, dynamically linked (uses
On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 11:31 +0200, Christoph Pleger wrote:
[...]
> 2. All other software on the machine is 32-bit software. Will that
> software work with a 64-bit kernel?
Basically yes.
E.g. open-office does not exist natively for 64bit architectuires ATM.
Bernd
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Firmix Software
On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 11:31 +0200, Christoph Pleger wrote:
[...]
> 2. All other software on the machine is 32-bit software. Will that
> software work with a 64-bit kernel?
Basically yes.
E.g. open-office does not exist natively for 64bit architectures ATM (at
least not on x86-compatibles).
On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 08:27 -0300, Vinicius wrote:
[...]
>I have a server with 2 Pentium 4 HT processors and 32 GB of RAM, this
> server runs lots of applications that consume lots of memory to. When I stop
> this applications, the kernel doesn't free memory (the memory still in use)
> and
On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 18:15 -0400, Puneet Vyas wrote:
[...]
> I just compiled two identical program , one with "!=" and other with
> "^". The assembly output is identical.
Hmm, which compiler and which version?
You might want to try much older and other compilers.
Bernd
--
Firmix
On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 08:07 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
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> To answer for x *= 2 vs x <<= 1:
and x += x
> Use * when you would logically want to do a multiplication,
> << if you're working on a bitfield. It's just for keeping the code clean
> enough so that others may understand it.
>
> In
On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 11:02 +0100, Paulo Marques wrote:
> J.A. Magallon wrote:
> > On 07.27, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> >>On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 10:14:43PM +, J.A. Magallon wrote:
> >>>On 07.16, J.A. Magallon wrote:
> On 07.15, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
>
On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 11:40 +0100, Paulo Marques wrote:
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> You're comming really late in this thread :)
Well, the same issue arised recently somewhere else too on this list and
lots of C programmers (not only beginners) don't know about the 3 char
types as speficied in the C standard.
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