Re: [DNG] measure memory usage

2020-08-22 Thread marcxdv
> On Friday 21 August 2020 at 22:23:16, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > > Is there a way for process to ask about its own memory usage? > > Assuming the process knows its own PD, try the 24th value in /proc/PID/stat ... or just /proc/self/stat regards marc ___

Re: [DNG] Zoom? Rather not...

2020-08-05 Thread marcxdv
> I understand the security advantages of using zoom on a laptop not > much used for anything else. I suppose the sercurity conern is files > being accessible to intruders. Someone made the interesting suggestion > of settin up a new account just for zoom. The concern about using any gratis com

Re: [DNG] Fwd: April's fools mess

2019-04-02 Thread marcxdv
> The surviving Devuan core team members will take zero or > more steps to prove Devuan trustworthy and sysadmins will > each decide for themselves or with their lawyers whether > they can continue to use Devuan. Weirdly enough I trust devuan a bit more after this incident: - I now know that the

Re: [DNG] "Stretch" plans

2017-07-17 Thread marcxdv
> > > > > - Devuan Beowulf will be the next testing, and will follow Ascii > > > > > > > > You do realize issues when talking about this on Slashdot, naked and > > > > petrified? > > > > > > I am evidently missing something, but I can't see what. > > > > That particular release might be deemed p

Re: [Dng] Readiness notification

2015-06-12 Thread marcxdv
> For months, literally, the supervision list > has been wringing its hands over the very real problem that, for process > dependency purposes, one must know that process X is not only running, > but ready to handle its business. Knowing process X is running isn't > sufficent, because some processe

Re: [Dng] [dng] vdev status updates

2015-05-05 Thread marcxdv
Hello > * I then argue that in the current world, autocompletion is not > reliable, because since it does not stat(), it cannot hide filenames > the user cannot execute, such as a 0644 file. What your autocompletion > is currently printing is an approximation of the programs you can run, > not an

Re: [Dng] [dng] vdev status updates

2015-05-03 Thread marcxdv
Hello again > >> 0700 for root-only binaries would hide them from your shell's > >> autocompletion. > > > >Which would be lots of stat() system calls. > > If a shell doesn't make them, then it doesn't verify that a file is > executable either. (I just checked with zsh: it doesn't indeed.) > Su

Re: [Dng] [dng] FS structure: Was vdev status updates

2015-05-02 Thread marcxdv
Me again So I am going to quote Laurent a bit out of order, sorry about that, but it seems the best way to explain things: > >Now as for other assertions in this thread that the FHS itself is > >obsolete and violations of it should not be considered a bad thing, just > >no. > > I don't think an

Re: [Dng] [dng] vdev status updates

2015-05-02 Thread marcxdv
> On 30/04/2015 22:35, Joerg Reisenweber wrote: > >exactly this PATH issue is what I expect and appreciate here: I do NOT > >expect > >command autocompletion of normal user to get confused by command names that > >are not supposed to even be in user's PATH > > 0700 for root-only binaries would h

Re: [Dng] Another reason of why I am considering Devuan

2015-04-03 Thread marcxdv
> > I used to work for multiple ISPs, and I can tell you a few things for what > little they are worth. The source and destination IPs are tagged on each > packet sent over Internet. If you are tracking someone from a browser, which > is a higher level protocol than DNS, you have no need to cor