Re: [DNG] netman GIT project

2015-09-05 Thread aitor_czr
Pushed libpqxx++ to GitLab: https://gitlab.com/aitor_czr/libpqxx/tree/master It uses command line parameters :) Aitor. El 04/09/15 a las 20:44, Edward Bartolo escribió: I will use command line parameters for the GUI frontend so that it may be started to automatically scan for available wifis

[DNG] xf86-input-evdev

2015-09-05 Thread shraptor
On arch linux xf86-input-evdev is reported to have a dependency on systemd. I thought the dependency is on udev and that is usually reported on arch like systemd(udev). I downloaded xf86-input-evdev for recompilation but could not find any switches to compile without systemd though some evid

Re: [DNG] xf86-input-evdev

2015-09-05 Thread Teodoro Santoni
Good afternoon, On Sat, Sep 05, 2015 at 01:49:14PM +0200, shraptor wrote: > On arch linux xf86-input-evdev is reported to have a dependency on systemd. > > I thought the dependency is on udev and that is usually reported on arch > like > systemd(udev). > > I downloaded xf86-input-evdev for recom

Re: [DNG] xf86-input-evdev

2015-09-05 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, Sep 05, 2015 at 03:39:17PM +0200, Teodoro Santoni wrote: > Good afternoon, > > On Sat, Sep 05, 2015 at 01:49:14PM +0200, shraptor wrote: > > On arch linux xf86-input-evdev is reported to have a dependency on systemd. > > > > I thought the dependency is on udev and that is usually reported

Re: [DNG] Doing away with multi-threading in my project (netman)

2015-09-05 Thread Rainer Weikusat
Edward Bartolo writes: > I am not putting in doubt what you are telling me. You are. And you are - pardon my frankness - very much confused regarding how 'processes and process relationships' work on UNIX(*)/ Linux. I'll try to clear this up but you might want to consider getting yourself a good

Re: [DNG] xf86-input-evdev

2015-09-05 Thread Jack L. Frost
vdev is currently not providing its own pkg-config file, so if you want to try building evdev against it, you should take the .pc file from either systemd or eudev. On Sat, Sep 05, 2015 at 09:50:13AM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Sat, Sep 05, 2015 at 03:39:17PM +0200, Teodoro Santoni wrote: > >

Re: [DNG] Doing away with multi-threading in my project (netman)

2015-09-05 Thread Nate Bargmann
Edward, A rather thorough reference is "The Linux Programming Interface" available from: http://www.man7.org/tlpi/ and other retailers. HTH, - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Ham radio, Linux, bikes, and m

Re: [DNG] xf86-input-evdev

2015-09-05 Thread Isaac Dunham
On Sat, Sep 05, 2015 at 01:49:14PM +0200, shraptor wrote: > On arch linux xf86-input-evdev is reported to have a dependency on systemd. > > I thought the dependency is on udev and that is usually reported on arch > like > systemd(udev). > > I downloaded xf86-input-evdev for recompilation but coul

Re: [DNG] xf86-input-evdev

2015-09-05 Thread Teodoro Santoni
On Sat, Sep 05, 2015 at 06:38:27PM +0300, Jack L. Frost wrote: > vdev is currently not providing its own pkg-config file, so if you want to try > building evdev against it, you should take the .pc file from either systemd or > eudev. > Or hacking the... whatever the eff evdev uses to build in ord

Re: [DNG] Doing away with multi-threading in my project (netman)

2015-09-05 Thread Edward Bartolo
First of all, thanks for taking the time to write to me. Using "ps xao pid,ppid,comm", I found what I described to you: precisely, that orphaned processes were adopted by the GUI frontend. The frontend's pid was listed as the zombies' ppid. Now, this issue has little effect on the code as I am usi

Re: [DNG] Doing away with multi-threading in my project (netman)

2015-09-05 Thread Rainer Weikusat
Edward Bartolo writes: [...] > Using "ps xao pid,ppid,comm", I found what I described to you: > precisely, that orphaned processes were adopted by the GUI frontend. There are no 'orphaned processes' in this case because execl does not create a new process. It runs a new program in the same proc

Re: [DNG] xf86-input-evdev

2015-09-05 Thread shraptor
Just to be clear my system before upgrade was using vdev in conjunction with xf86-input-evdev and working fine. I did not recompile that version of evdev and it just worked with libudev-compat. When I upgraded to new version of both( and new kernel) keyboard stopped working( though could be bro

Re: [DNG] xf86-input-evdev

2015-09-05 Thread shraptor
I also forgot to say that on my upgraded system with vdev and arch version of xf86-input-evdev touchpad gets detected and loaded that I believe is fascilitated by evdev and libudev-compat?? best regards Scooby On 2015-09-05 21:40, shraptor wrote: Just to be clear my system before upgrade wa

Re: [DNG] Doing away with multi-threading in my project (netman)

2015-09-05 Thread Edward Bartolo
Quote: <> So what is the difference between an "orphaned process", i.e. a process whose parent has exited after giving birth to a child process and one which replaces the original process effectively giving its parent a death sentence? Sorry, but it looks there is only a very subtle difference be

Re: [DNG] Doing away with multi-threading in my project (netman)

2015-09-05 Thread Edward Bartolo
Correction: Sorry, but it looks there is only a very subtle difference between the two. The only difference I see, is that, since in the case of execl, the parent effectively is replaced, i.e. dies, the child process is awarded its parent PID. This is not the case when a parent process creates a c

[DNG] [kato...@freaknet.org: Re: Doing away with multi-threading in my project (netman)]

2015-09-05 Thread KatolaZ
On Sat, Sep 05, 2015 at 08:54:25PM +0100, Edward Bartolo wrote: > Correction: > > Sorry, but it looks there is only a very subtle difference between the > two. The only difference I see, is that, since in the case of execl, > the parent effectively is replaced, i.e. dies, the child process is awar

Re: [DNG] Doing away with multi-threading in my project (netman)

2015-09-05 Thread KatolaZ
On Sat, Sep 05, 2015 at 08:52:39PM +0100, Edward Bartolo wrote: > Quote: < process (that's done via fork and not via execve) and it's not adopted > by the grand parent but by init.>> > > So what is the difference between an "orphaned process", i.e. a > process whose parent has exited after giving

Re: [DNG] xf86-input-evdev

2015-09-05 Thread shraptor
When I read jude's documentation it states "It also ships with a "libudev-compat" library that is ABI-compatible with libudev 219." My system is libudev 224, does this mean it isn't ABI-compatible anymore? if so how to handle? On 2015-09-05 21:49, shraptor wrote: I also forgot to say that

Re: [DNG] Dng Digest, Vol 12, Issue 17

2015-09-05 Thread aitor_czr
.pc files are quilt patches applied. Aaitor. El 05/09/15 a las 21:52, dng-requ...@lists.dyne.org escribió: @Jack Frost I do not understand the use of .pc files although I have seen them around. I am using your systemd-dummy package though to avoid pulling in real systemd, Thanks for that. ___

[DNG] Subject: Re: xf86-input-evdev

2015-09-05 Thread aitor_czr
Hi shraptor, .pc file includes theapplied quilt patches. Aitor. El 05/09/15 a las 21:52, shraptor escribió: @Jack Frost I do not understand the use of .pc files although I have seen them around. I am using your systemd-dummy package though to avoid pulling in real systemd, Thanks for that.

Re: [DNG] xf86-input-evdev

2015-09-05 Thread shraptor
Problem solved when I changed so names from libudev.so libudev.so.1 -> libudev.so.1.0.1 libudev.so.1.0.1 -> libudev.so.1.5.1 libudev.so.1.5.1 -> libudev.so.1.6.0 libudev.so.1.6.0 -> libudev.so.1.6.4 libudev.so.1.6.4 -> libudev.so to libudev.so libudev.so.1 -> libudev.so.1.0.1 libudev.so.1.0.

Re: [DNG] Doing away with multi-threading in my project (netman)

2015-09-05 Thread ibid . ag
On Sat, Sep 05, 2015 at 08:52:39PM +0100, Edward Bartolo wrote: > Quote: < process (that's done via fork and not via execve) and it's not adopted > by the grand parent but by init.>> > > So what is the difference between an "orphaned process", i.e. a > process whose parent has exited after giving