Casper.Dik's articles:

Items(1) /1

NLOSUG: 26/10/2006 Dutch OpenSolaris User Group First Meeting 0 49 (10/19/2006 11:11:51 AM) comp.unix.solaris Announcing NLOSUG, the Dutch OpenSolaris User Group First Meeting ================================================================= Please register at: http://www.sun.nl/nlosug In June 2005 Sun Microsystems o... Casper

Casper.Dik's replies:

Items(368) /37 Next >> Last >|

fork + exec; what are the possible resource leaks? 51 85 (4/16/2010 9:56:12 PM) comp.unix.programmer I'm somewhat new to POSIX. It seems that the only way to create a new process is fork. However, fork inherits all file descriptors. exec closes only the file descriptors marked as "close on exec". I generally s... Joshua

SPARCstation 5 19 24 (5/4/2010 11:00:31 AM) comp.sys.sun.hardware Hi, I'm looking for the Solaris 2.6 OS media and/or a SCSI CD-ROM drive for the SPARCstation 5 (S5-110). I've got three machines of this type and it would be nice to see them work again. I'm not willing to spe... mmoel (42)

EFBIG and determination of max file, et al. 5 55 (5/11/2010 9:51:04 PM) comp.unix.programmer I need to deal with an EFBIG at work. (1) how do I determine the maximum allowed size of a file (a) rlimit is not particularly helpful: RLIMIT_FSIZE: unlimited unlimited (b) I didn't see a relev... yirg.kenya (19)

msync() and MAP_PRIVATE 5 58 (5/13/2010 6:14:36 PM) comp.unix.programmer The posix spec http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/msync.html : > It is unspecified whether data in MAP_PRIVATE mappings has any permanent storage locations. So what are these "permanent s... yirg.kenya (19)

Sun Blade 1500: unmotivated shutdown; how to disable power management? 14 29 (6/6/2010 2:04:16 PM) comp.sys.sun.hardware I've got a Sun Blade 1500 with no OS installed so far. I'm connecting to it through the serial console. I've tried to install both Solaris 10 (from DVD) as well as Debian Linux (netbooting the image). In both c... georg.schwarz (83)

UDP and fragmentation 11 21 (8/2/2010 5:42:43 AM) comp.protocols.kerberos Colleagues, Quoting from http://support.microsoft.com/kb/244474/ By default, Kerberos uses connectionless UDP datagram packets. Depending on a variety of factors including security identifier (SID) history and... vas (237)

Are mmap and malloc amicable? 13 56 (8/14/2010 9:38:01 AM) comp.unix.programmer Hopefully, a quick question: Can I safely combine the use of malloc/realloc/free with mmap in the same program? Or, more precisely, if I mmap an anonymous map, and accumulate data in increasing addresses, am I ... mijoryx (954)

max file descriptors available to a process? 5 81 (9/11/2010 10:17:46 AM) comp.unix.programmer Hello all, Is there a simple way to find out the maximum number of available file descriptors on *nix? tia, -- luoisa trotter ... mijoryx (954)

initgroups() 8 49 (10/3/2010 11:04:51 PM) comp.unix.programmer So, I was messing around with setuid() and setgid(), and I found the function initgroups(). (For the portability/standards jockeys, yes, we are talking exclusively here about Linux). initgroups() takes 2 para... gazelle3 (1608)

Could SUID bit be set not for executable, but only for a library? 16 51 (11/7/2010 8:26:45 AM) comp.unix.programmer Hi Could SUID bit (giving a program my permissions) be set not for executable, but only for a library? Thanks ... alex.vinokur (56)