On 2015-05-04 04:45 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > 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 > Rday, Yet everything I ask a question I get a similar response like do your homework or read more rather then any help. Clearly I understand with my older questions why but all of my questions now are similar in nature to this so there is no reason for that. Nick _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
