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I am unsure why these two blocks of code give different outputs: unsigned int seed1 = 0; char state1[256]; initstate(seed1, state1, 256); printf("%10ld\n", random()); printf("%10ld\n", random()); ...
Expropriate asked 6/12, 2012 at 10:11

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I'm studying sys/queue.h from FreeBSD and I have one question: In sys/queue.h, LIST_ENTRY is defined as follows: #define LIST_ENTRY(type) \ struct { \ struct type *le_next; /* next element */ \ ...
Sinuosity asked 8/5, 2013 at 12:23

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I know nothing about Sed but need this command (which works fine on Ubuntu) to work on a Mac OSX: sed -i "/ $domain .*#drupalpro/d" /etc/hosts I'm getting: sed: 1: "/etc/hosts": extra cha...
Hylton asked 25/5, 2013 at 3:3

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How to create an empty tgz file? I tried tar czvf /tmp/empty.tgz --from-file /dev/null tar: Option --from-file is not supported
Olsewski asked 28/6, 2017 at 16:8

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I wanted to use DTrace to see "what syscalls are made by my shell script". I made a very simple shell script, shell.sh, and gave it execute privileges: #!/bin/bash grep 1 <<< 123 I cd'...
Moorhead asked 24/6, 2017 at 23:23

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How can I get the process details like name of application & real path of application from process id? I am using Mac OS X.
Lindsley asked 22/9, 2011 at 8:30

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To make my code portable, I try to use printf rather than echo. But then printf "-dogs-cats" returns an error. A workaround in the present case is: printf "-";printf "dogs-cats" But is there ...
Ramsdell asked 4/11, 2016 at 12:53

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Throughout the CoreFoundation framework source, POSIX filesystem API calls (e.g. open(), stat(), et al…) are wrapped in an idiom wherein a descriptor on /dev/autofs_nowait is acquired – with open(…...
Danieldaniela asked 9/9, 2016 at 4:18

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How to run *BSD (Open, Free, etc.) on Docker? I am using Docker for Mac. But There is no BSD image on Docker Hub. How I can run it?
Nonsense asked 15/9, 2016 at 11:43

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I am trying to use the select function to have non-blocking i/o between a server and 1 client (no more) where the communication flows nicely (can send at any time and the other will receive without...
Silverstein asked 16/7, 2011 at 6:17

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While working on a project that reads from /dev/urandom to generate random bytes, it was suggested that I check to make sure that /dev/urandom is a device not just a file. The most straightforward...
Katheryn asked 25/7, 2015 at 20:58

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Windows (NtQueryObject), Linux (/proc/self/fd/x) and OS X (F_GETPATH) all have methods for retrieving the path of a currently open file descriptor. Supposedly so does FreeBSD via something like the...
Judaic asked 14/2, 2015 at 14:56

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Given this sample input: ID Sample1 Sample2 Sample3 One 10 0 5 Two 3 6 8 Three 3 4 7 I needed to produce this output using AWK: ID Sample1 Sample2 Sample3 One 62.50 0.00 25.00 Two 18.75 60.0...
Gainey asked 23/12, 2014 at 15:49

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There are pages scattered around the web that describe POSIX AIO facilities in varying amounts of detail. None of them are terribly recent. It's not clear what, exactly, they're describing. For exa...
Sphygmic asked 17/9, 2008 at 21:32

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I use the sed command on macOS with the following text: $ cat pets.txt This is my cat my cat's name is betty This is your dog your dog's name is frank This is your fish your fish's name is geo...
Anamorphism asked 30/9, 2014 at 15:31

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I'm trying to concatenate a license to the top of my built sources. I'm use GNU Make. In one of my rules, I have: cat src/license.txt build/3d-tags.js > build/3d-tags.js But this seems to be ...
Selia asked 30/9, 2014 at 0:55

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Can stdout file descriptor differ from 1 (STDOUT_FILENO) assuming stdout need not be a modifiable lvalue? For example, can freopen("/dev/null", "w", stdout) change fileno(stdout) result?
Peculiar asked 26/8, 2014 at 22:48

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I'm using this reference : sed help: matching and replacing a literal "\n" (not the newline) and I have a file "test1.txt" that contains a string hello\ngoodbye I use this command...
Archegonium asked 17/6, 2014 at 23:54

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I saw some BSD code using the following construct: typedef int driver_filter_t(void*); What does that mean, exactly? I don't think it's a function pointer because otherwise it would be something...
Teamwork asked 5/6, 2014 at 16:14

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Any one knows why BSD md5 program produces hash output in this format ... MD5 (checksum.md5) = 9eb7a54d24dbf6a2eb9f7ce7a1853cd0 ... while GNU md5sum produces much more sensible format like this?...
Susuable asked 19/8, 2009 at 13:11

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Non greedy matching as far as I know is not part of Basic Regular Expression (BRE) and Extended Regular Expression (ERE). However, the behaviour on different versions of grep (BSD and GNU) seems to...
Corrosive asked 4/5, 2014 at 8:32

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Have been doing some google search and some reading on this subject but cannot seem to get it right no matter how much time i spent searching. What i want to do is to receive broadcast message of...
Casavant asked 10/2, 2012 at 8:56

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For example, take open(2), which has the following synopsis: #include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/stat.h> #include <fcntl.h> int open(const char *pathname, int flags); int open...
Emeritaemeritus asked 10/1, 2014 at 19:27

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I am interested in iterating all mounted file systems on OSX (currently running 10.9 Mavericks). I am looking for something similar to getmntent() or the output of the mount shell command (although...
Residence asked 7/11, 2013 at 17:58

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Linux's "man close" warns (SVr4, 4.3BSD, POSIX.1-2001): Not checking the return value of close() is a common but nevertheless serious programming error. It is quite possible that errors on a pre...
Tight asked 27/9, 2013 at 17:1

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