Re: making a non-GPLed module

2001-11-26 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: >Hi, > >When you read the following, bare in mind one thing: I am not a lawyer >and I don't even play one on TV. Having said that, I did investiage this >issue quite a lot for reasons very similar to yours. > I am not a lawyer either. Furthermore - noone in my family is a

PnP problem

2001-11-26 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
Hello. Almost three years have past since I broke my teeths and managed to configure my ISA PnP modem with Linux. A couple of days ago I upgraded from RedHat7.0+ to 7.2, and among various annoyences, the modem stopped working. It seems that it is found by the system (see /proc/isapnp: Card 1 '

Re: threads question

2001-11-26 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Mon, Nov 26, 2001, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote about "Re: threads question": > > What is this last return statement?? Returning from main? That's not > > something you're supposed to do in a multithreaded program. It > > might, for example, free the entire malloc pool, including arg which > > is late

Re: threads question

2001-11-26 Thread guy keren
On 26 Nov 2001, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > > What is this last return statement?? Returning from main? That's not > > something you're supposed to do in a multithreaded program. It > > might, for example, free the entire malloc pool, including argwhich > > is later freed in the second thread, causi

[OT] controlling the sblive rear speakers in linux

2001-11-26 Thread Noam Meltzer
Hi! I installed the sblive module which i downloaded from the http://opensource.creative.com site, and i tried to control the rear speakers volume, but with no success. i was wondering if any1 here had any success with it, and can share with me his wisdom. 10x, Noam -- Noam Meltzer [EMAIL PRO

Re: Hebrew & Linux from IBM?

2001-11-26 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 09:15:56PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > * BiDi in the wv project (library for reading MicroSoft documents). Looks out of wv's scope to me. IMHO, wv should simply return Unicode data to AbiWord, KWord etc. which do their own bidi (both of them do now, with the advent o

Re: fork. system login failure

2001-11-26 Thread mulix
On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Stiven Andre wrote: > I have 2 cron jobs: > > 1: is an excutable to update the my vhost on www.no-ip.com perhaphs it gets stuck and loops endlessly? > 2: is for automaticly chmod/chown of the /home/ftp it is sctipt looks like > this: [snipped] looks ok. > The root user a

Re: threads question

2001-11-26 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
"Nadav Har'El" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What is this last return statement?? Returning from main? That's not > something you're supposed to do in a multithreaded program. It > might, for example, free the entire malloc pool, including arg which > is later freed in the second thread, causing

Re: threads question

2001-11-26 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Omer Musaev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > AFAIK, you should not "return NULL; " from a pthread, but rather > "pthread_exit( NULL ); " Then I get the same segfault stepping through pthread_exit(). I am looking at Stevens' UNP where he clearly says that the start_routine (my start()) can return a

Re: fork. system login failure

2001-11-26 Thread Stiven Andre
>From: mulix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Stiven Andre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >CC: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: fork. system login failure >Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 22:03:23 +0200 (IST) > >On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Stiven Andre wrote: > > > I have some strange probelm. > > I have server running rh7.2 th

Re: Hebrew & Linux from IBM?

2001-11-26 Thread dov
Shalom Matitiahu, First of all I am always very impressed with the work carried out and sponsered by IBM. Please keep it up! I wonder if your group has an official road map of what areas you will spend energy (and funding) in with regards to BiDi in the near future. Especially I wonder if you c

Re: fork. system login failure

2001-11-26 Thread mulix
On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Stiven Andre wrote: > I have some strange probelm. > I have server running rh7.2 that works 24hours a day and after adding some > cron jobs I always recieve the following: > > When the server runs about 10-20 hours I recieve an error "sh: fork Resource > temporary unavilable"

fork. system login failure

2001-11-26 Thread Stiven Andre
Hi List. I have some strange probelm. I have server running rh7.2 that works 24hours a day and after adding some cron jobs I always recieve the following: When the server runs about 10-20 hours I recieve an error "sh: fork Resource temporary unavilable" for the first 3-4 commands I enter. afte

Re: making a non-GPLed module

2001-11-26 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
Hi, On Mon, 2001-11-26 at 02:03, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > > Let's say a company is considering making a kernel module out of > a piece of software. Never mind the reasons to make it a kernel module > - assume they are good and valid. There is no intention to sneak this > module into the mainstr

RE: threads question

2001-11-26 Thread Omer Musaev
> -Original Message- > From: Oleg Goldshmidt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 1:58 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: threads question > > > > OK, I have my own programming question. Not a homework. I am also > posting it to comp.unix.programming, but t

Re: threads question

2001-11-26 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Mon, Nov 26, 2001, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote about "threads question": > static void* start(void* arg) > { > int c = *((int*)arg); > free(arg); > . > } > > int main(void) > { > int* arg = NULL; > > if ((arg = (int*)malloc(sizeof(*arg))) == NULL) >... > if (

threads question

2001-11-26 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
OK, I have my own programming question. Not a homework. I am also posting it to comp.unix.programming, but this list can be more responsive. I have the following trivial piece of code that I am trying to compile with g++ (gcc-2.96-98) on RH 7.2 (Linux 2.4.9-13 on i686). The code looks like C, bu

RE: Hebrew & Linux from IBM?

2001-11-26 Thread Matitiahu Allouche
Shai Bentin wrote: >Well, Usually IBM used to do its localization using a group (a company >it owned) called Softel, which was set in Jerusalem. When IGSI was >established IBM incorporated Softel into IGSI. It may have taken some of >the localization development and moved it into IBM Haifa. The p

Re: routing problem to ftp.iglu.org.il

2001-11-26 Thread Amir Plivatsky
Hello, The problem happened because I tried to balance our AT&T link (we have links through various providers) by sending more-specific routes, without sending them to the IIX too, thus forcing all the traffic for these routes to go through AT&T. Sorry for the trouble caused. Today morning I