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Untitled 1 Jun 2012 | 09:49 am
The original plan was to have some program sI wrote to be added to the procps or util-linux package but the maintainers haven't been responsive. Therefore here they are in a package on their own. I c...
pagein 1 Jun 2012 | 07:51 am
I've updated the pagein tool to compile with a recent valgrind version. The tarball also contains a .spec file. I had to work around a bug in valgrind in Fedora 16 and 17. The tarball
Cancellation and C++ Exceptions 5 Aug 2010 | 01:38 pm
Cancellation and C++ Exceptions In NPTL thread cancellation is implemented using exceptions. This does not in general conflict with the mixed use of cancellation and exceptions in C++ programs. This ...
IDN Support 7 May 2010 | 05:47 pm
glibc has IDN support for getaddrinfo and getnameinfo for quite some time. It has to be explicitly enabled in the calls, though. Now that I can actually test this I’ve enabled IDN support in the geten...
Fedora and USB Mobile Broadband 5 May 2010 | 04:27 am
Outside the US I use a USB stick for Internet access. It is a Huawei E161, similar enough to other sticks like E160 etc. Inserting it into a standard Fedora 12 system causes only the simulated CDROM ...
glibc 2.10 news 18 Apr 2009 | 12:42 pm
I might need a bit more space to explain the new features in glibc 2.10 than can reasonably be written down in the release notes. Therefore I’ll take some time to describe them here. POSIX 2008 We (...
Fedora 10 a little bit more secure 3 Jan 2009 | 01:21 pm
Fedora 10 comes with filesystem capability support. Unfortunately it is not used by default in the packages which can take advantage of it. I think the excuse is that there people who build their own ...
Secure File Descriptor Handling 2 Aug 2008 | 11:25 am
During the 2.6.27 merge window a number of my patches were merge and now we are at the point where we can securely create file descriptors without the danger of possibly leaking information. Before I ...
dual head xrandr configuration 24 May 2008 | 05:53 am
ajax told me that extra wide screens now work with the latest Fedora 9 binaries for X11. So I had to try it out and after some experimenting I got it to work. To save others the work here is what I di...
Producing PDFs 22 Nov 2007 | 03:35 pm
I don't want to throw this in with the announcement of the availability of the paper on memory and cache handling but I also don't want to forget it. So, here we go. I write all the text I can using ...
