setresuid, setreuid AIO, bug? where?

While investigating Samba? bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/216358 I came on: http://webui.sourcelabs.com/rhel/issues/459901 Well, I tested a bit the http://samba.org/~tridge/junkcode/aio_uid.c program on my system: Linux version 2.6.28-9-generic (bui...@palmer) (gcc version 4.3.3 (Ubuntu 4.3

Re : setresuid, setreuid AIO, bug? where?

. 2009/3/23, Scott James Remnant : > On Sun, 2009-03-22 at 22:58 -0400, Paul Dufresne wrote: > >> But the comment from a glibc developer: >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=459901#c1 >> made me thinks: Hey, don't they know at glibc that this is setreuid

Re : Looking at Package Management for Karmic or Karmic+1

Someone said: >One gigantic improvement would be downloading package deltas instead of >whole >.DEB files. I care even more about doing that for apt-get update, than apt-get upgrade. I am using a bit 56k, and I have seen in last few days that apt-get update is part of cron.daily now. I did not dea

main.efi: PE Unknown PE signature 0x642e x86-64

I have tried to build a efi test file by reading: https://wiki.osdev.org/GNU-EFI but the file did not loaded... and then I saw that file show what seems an invalid file format: paul@starman:~/efitest$ file main.efi main.efi: PE Unknown PE signature 0x642e x86-64 (stripped to external PDB

Implementation section of specs

While some nice comment have been made on how to make good quality spec (for the mouseTweaks spec I did not look yet), I'd like to share one compaint I have about how many (if not most) specs treat the implementation section. My problem is that specifications have no section in which they say how

UDEV vs. HAL responsability

I feel like opening a flame war. Basically, the question that come to my mind is about /etc/udev/rules.d/45-libgphoto2.rules . I am not even sure but I think most entries in there is making in sort that camera devices get mounted automatically. And that it requires to add a line for any known came

Re: What do I do with disturbing bug reports in Wine about system crashes?

For adding a task on an other package, I go to the pink 'Actions' menu in upper left, click on 'Also affects distribution', choose 'Ubuntu' as distribution in upper textbox, and the the package you guess the bug apply in lower textbox. Then click 'continue' button. I really suggest you guess the p

New spec: Configuration files upgrades made easier

This is to inform you of a new specification, beginning to be drafted: Configuration files upgrades made easier Summary: When upgrading a package for which you have made changes, intelligently merge old configuration file, with the new one, rather then choosing the old one or the new one. https:/

bug #129910 tty[1-6] are active but display nothing in Gutsy

Bug #129910 is becoming very messy with it's 20 duplicates and apparently no known developer making clear comments. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/initramfs-tools/+bug/129910 -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at:

Re: bug #129910 tty[1-6] are active but display nothing in Gutsy

> Oh, actually, wait, I've asked the kernel team several time and got an answer: > 'just remove vga= from your startup kernel command line' The problem is that I am affected by this bug (or at least a very similar one in symptoms), but have no vga= in /boot/grub/menu.lst on kernel lines. Also, mo

ghc6 (Haskell compiler) becoming old

One of my new year resolution is to become a not too bad Haskell programmer in 2008. That said, I would like to have latest development version of ghc6 (Glasgow Haskell Compiler) which is the most well known Haskell compiler in Haskell community, inside Hardy. Unfortunately, Debian Sid just have t