On Thu, 13 Feb 2020 at 11:35, Andy Paterson via users <
users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> Except the system call version doesn't need you to include any header
> files!
> Which is NOT clear from the man page!
>
The man page says "On Linux, the kernel provides a getcwd() system call,
which t
Except the system call version doesn't need you to include any header files!
Which is NOT clear from the man page!
> On 13 Feb 2020, at 13:53, George N. White III wrote:
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>
>> On Thu, 13 Feb 2020 at 06:40, Andy Paterson via users
>> wrote:
>
>> [...]
>> I am a little confused by getcwd(),
On Thu, 13 Feb 2020 at 06:40, Andy Paterson via users <
users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> [...]
>
> I am a little confused by getcwd(), on linux it is supposed to be a system
> call .. I expect to find a manual page for it in section 2 (man 2 getcwd)
>
> instead it gives me the library funct
On Thursday, 13 February 2020 01:09:20 GMT Roger Heflin wrote:
> It may be the pwd command doing it. It works like this:
>
> if something runs pwd when its cwd is under say /var/log then pwd goes
> through all files in /var/log until it finds .. then it goes up a
> directory and repeats, until it
On 2/12/20 7:00 PM, Tim via users wrote:
Gnome (or Gnome-based) things, will put temporary auto-mounting
things (flash drives, etc) inside of /var/run/, then give you an
apparently separate mount point. You'll get a desktop icon for it, and
no immediate indication that it's accessed through /var
On 12Feb2020 19:09, Roger Heflin wrote:
It may be the pwd command doing it. It works like this:
if something runs pwd when its cwd is under say /var/log then pwd goes
through all files in /var/log until it finds .. then it goes up a
directory and repeats, until it gets to /.
getcwd() is a sy
On 2/12/20 7:09 PM, Roger Heflin wrote:
It may be the pwd command doing it. It works like this:
if something runs pwd when its cwd is under say /var/log then pwd goes
through all files in /var/log until it finds .. then it goes up a
directory and repeats, until it gets to /.
That makes sense. J
On Wed, 2020-02-12 at 13:10 -0600, Dave Ulrick wrote:
> In addition to one PC that mounted a green USB drive under /var I
> had several other PCs that mounted a NAS under /var. That NAS is
> intended to store backup files so its hard drive is configured to
> spin down after 10 idle minutes.
>
> In
It may be the pwd command doing it. It works like this:
if something runs pwd when its cwd is under say /var/log then pwd goes
through all files in /var/log until it finds .. then it goes up a
directory and repeats, until it gets to /.
Assuming that is the case your solution would be expected to
The most irritating spin-up for me occurs on a reboot.
I have a really slow USB drive that isn't even mounted,
just plugged in (in case I want to mount it). The reboot
always hangs for several seconds, and I can hear the
drive spin up before the reboot proceeds.
On 2/12/20 7:53 AM, Dave Ulrick wrote:
Interesting thought. I can envision how a lookup for /var/xyz could
cause everything under /var to be looked up, and I can see how
/var/cache or /var/run would be frequently read. I'll try mounting a
green USB drive's file system at a third-level director
Interesting thought. I can envision how a lookup for /var/xyz could
cause everything under /var to be looked up, and I can see how
/var/cache or /var/run would be frequently read. I'll try mounting a
green USB drive's file system at a third-level directory (e.g.,
/var/backups/0) or under a les
On Tue, 2020-02-11 at 19:53 -0600, Dave Ulrick wrote:
> I'm logged in as a non-root user with my home directory as my
> current working directory. The file system containing my home
> directory is mounted at /home. I'm using a shell prompt via a
> graphical terminal emulator (xfce4-terminal, in my
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