On Sun, 3 May 2015, Nicholas Krause wrote: > > > On May 3, 2015 9:16:27 AM EDT, Ruben Safir <ruben@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >On 05/03/2015 08:47 AM, Nicholas Krause wrote: > >> remember there being information about this topic being in the Linux > >programming interface in chapters 26 through 28. Furthermore find a > >copy of this book as it's a rather good reference for when you need > >questions like this answered. > > > > > >which book? > >The book is called the Linux programming interface and the chapters > >related to this question are chapters 26 or 27 I believe. nick, this is another reason your contributions to this forum (and pretty much every other one you're on) are so frequently valueless -- you rarely give a complete or useful answer. i suspect the book you're referring to is michael kerrisk's "the linux programming interface", http://man7.org/tlpi/index.html (a book to which i have actually contributed corrections, http://man7.org/tlpi/errata/index.html), which is a reference you *could* have provided but, instead, you chose to leave just this maddeningly half-vague reference to a book and some chapter numbers. it's an annoying habit with you, nick -- someone asks a well-formed and specific question and, because you always want to be the first one to jump in with an answer to burnish your credentials, your reply is typically something like, "i think there's a system call that does what you want, you should look it up." your eagerness to leap in and be the first one to be helpful typically means your contributions are vague, vacuous, incomplete and, in some cases, simply wrong. but rather than take the time to research the question so that your response is actually *helpful*, you prefer to contribute little more than, "i think this thing might help what you're working on, you should check the man page." you're not doing your reputation any favours. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ======================================================================== _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
