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2004-12-17 Thread Orr Dunkelman
Next Monday (20/12/2004), 18:30, the Haifa Linux Club will once again meet to hear Muli Ben-Yehuda talk about: ptrace - Playing Debugger Chess ptrace is the POSIX API that allows debuggers to do their work. It can also be used by programs (malicious or otherwise) to control the behaviour

Re: smb hebrew file names in konqueror

2004-12-17 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 04:47:25PM +0200, Ilya Konstantinov wrote: > Naomi Schor wrote: > > >WITHOUT mounting. I point Konqueror to > > > >smb://KWIN98/KITAA > > > >and I see the files ok, but I see gibberish when the file names are in > >Hebrew. > > > From a short look at the KDE source code ( >

D.J. Bernstein's Course for Discovering Holes in Unix Software

2004-12-17 Thread Shlomi Fish
Spotted on Slashdot: http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/12/15/2113202 Reading from the opening paragraph: <<< D. J. Bernstein, better known as DJB, has announced the discovery of 44 security holes that were found by students in his course MCS 494: Unix Security Holes this fall at the Uni

Re: smb hebrew file names in konqueror

2004-12-17 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
Naomi Schor wrote: WITHOUT mounting. I point Konqueror to smb://KWIN98/KITAA and I see the files ok, but I see gibberish when the file names are in Hebrew. From a short look at the KDE source code ( http://webcvs.kde.org/kdenonbeta/kio_smbro/kio_smb.cpp?rev=1.58&view=auto ), I see that it simply

Re: OT: SunOS BSD (was: Re: core file debug.)

2004-12-17 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 02:35:32AM +0200, guy keren wrote: > > On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 01:04:29AM +0200, guy keren wrote: > > > A. there is no "BSD SunOS". there is "BSD", and there is "SunOS". i assume > > > you're refering to SunOS > > > > No

Re: Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console

2004-12-17 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
Miki Lewinger wrote: Hi. Does anyone have any idea what does "Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console" means ? The context: - I'm logging in w/ ssh on a machine running mandrake. The logon is performed against a YP/NIS server and the accounts' homes located on an NFS mounted volu

Re: Initrd entry in grub.conf and loading initrd in the kernel code

2004-12-17 Thread Ori Idan
4. the question that remans - how does the boot loader know where to find initrd_start and initrd_end? does it look their location directly in the kernel's elf file and updates their contents? naah... this is done in the architecture-specific code (e.g. for i386, in arch/i386/kernel/setup.c - look