Unix Programming

Minicom script line
Hi all. I'm invoking a minicom script by Ctrl - a - g. But the script run only upto 80 column characters and the remaining commands and ignored. My command comes about 130 characters. I want to invoke the entire command in single line itself. Thanks in advance, Morpheus ... 4 Oct 2006 07:18

I m unable to run the traceroute Program by Van Jacobson
When I tried to Compile the traceroute.c program by Van Jacobson, I got an error that <netinet/ip_var.h> could not be found. reference: http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~jrb/tcpip/misc.src/traceroute.c I m running on a Linux kernel 2.4.20 box. Can anyone suggest how can this be avoided. regards, tiken ... 5 Oct 2006 01:45

Thread cancellation
I have code void* somefunction(void *) { class a obj; while(1) sleep(1); } Constructor of 'class a' takes mutex , destructor of 'class a' releases that mutex. Above somefunction is executed by thread. Question here is : when we cancel the thread executing somefunction, destructor of o... 3 Oct 2006 09:59

open FIFO error
hi all , i have a test program, which the prarent process write "hello world" to a FIFO , and the child process read it form the FIFO,and printf it on the screem. but when i run the test program, it open the FIFO,there some problem happen. the prarent process hand up on open(), and the child process has error t... 27 Sep 2006 13:04

how to tell if a file is open
Heya all, How do I tell, prgrammatically, if a file is opened for read/write by some other process? In unix .. of course. My program needs to open files and work on it, and I want it to make sure that the file is not being written to (e.g. by scp, cp, mv etc) before I attampt to open it. Is there any functio... 27 Sep 2006 14:07

How to join lines using Unix script
I have a file of the format. a b c d I want to join these lines i.e the output should be a b c d This is equivalent to opening the file and doing %j in the file, I would like to know if theres an option of doing it using a Shell Script ... 22 Sep 2006 02:50

Necessity of xdr_free() in RPC
Hi Experts, I am working on RPC based server client program. I have the server and client working fine on the Linux.(both server and client on linux...same machine) When i run the server on AIX machine and client on Linux, server responds back with the 18-20 responses. and after that client timeout waiting fo... 20 Sep 2006 01:49

creating a .so file
I'm new to this goup, so - hello first. I've written some small games for linux on the xbox. I use OpenGL (mostly 2D) and only have software emulation on xbox linux. Now, mesa is quite slow and I have my own OpenGL implementation for PocketPC. My questions now: - can I create a libopengl.so from my files ... 20 Sep 2006 04:59

APUE 2nd edition: Is it worth it?
Hi, I'm doing some fairly UNIX specific coding with IPC, networking, and multi-device I/O. I do have "Unix Network Programming (Vol.1)", but the university library finally wanted "my" copy of "Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment" back, so I'm considering getting a private copy. Is the second edition... 19 Sep 2006 09:41

option check and POSIX/SUS standards
hi,guys! i'm now reading both Marc Rochkind 's Advanced Unix Programming and Richard Stevens and Rago's AUPE 2nd Edtion,and the 'option' part of POSIX/SUS standards really mess me up. As descibed by Rago in AUPE 2.6,i think option check has to handle 4 situations no matter which platform it is:undefined ,-1,0,and ... 21 Sep 2006 08:56