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files in /proc/$PID (e.g. ssh-agent, Chrome) are not owned by user but by root
I am just answering another question here :-) and thus had a look – wanted to have a look at /proc/$PID/fd of ssh-agent in order to find out which socket it uses. But I can't. I am quite surprised to ...
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What is the relation between the Linux device drivers “domains”?
As I'm reading about the Linux device drivers and power management API I keep encountering terms like "system level", "subsystem", "platform", "class", and so on.
What is the relation between them? ...
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Determine whether kernel built-in driver supports a device
I'm trying to find a way to accurately determine whether all the hardware on some system has a valid driver installed either via a kernel module or built-in to the kernel.
I'm working with RHEL 5.5 ...
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Does linux modules/drivers belong to kernal space or user space
Some articles say that modules/drivers belong to kernel space as it take part in forming the kernel; (reference: http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/drivers_linux)
While others say that ...
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Another method instead of user/kernel space [closed]
Linux: I want thousands of processes to be written, just at the top mention its memory access permission by using macros. => Enough of Kernel/user modes, CPU modes, context switching in system calls ...
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What are the other congestion control algorithms specially designed for lossy Wireless Networks like LTE and WiMax?
I am trying different congestion control algorithms for getting maximum throughput and minimum delay across my setup for TCP flow.Please suggest other available algorithms apart from
Veno, ...
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Install x11 on my own linux system
I have developed my own tiny linux file system using buildroot and busybox. I used linux-2.6.38.8 kernel configured and cross-compiled for target system(X86) according to needs.Now the filesystem is ...
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Unable to install Atheros AR8161 Ethernet controller driver for centOS 6
I've installed CentOS 6.3. However, eth0 does not show up on ifconfig.
So I figured out that I need to install alx Ethernet driver from here.
Since my internet is not working, as ethernet drivers are ...
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How is the kernel loaded?
I am trying to understand the Linux boot process, and after reading quite some amount of documentation there is one point that I still can't seem to understand.
So the basicis is BIOS -> Grub MBR -> ...
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Linux Operating system recovery after abnormal termination
How does the operating system (Linux) while rebooting checks whether abnormal termination happened during last shutdown and then does the file system consistent checks etc if required ?
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Preparing an initrd for qemu [duplicate]
I have compiled a bzImage but when I try to run it in qemu I get a kernel panic because I don't have an initrd file. So I create one by following the steps in this question but I cannot get it to ...
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Why TCP TIME-WAIT State is present at both ends after a connection termination?
I am reading how the TCP states work and especially the connection termination part.
All of the books or online material I read, shows that for the termination procedure these states are followed ...
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Writing a Linux file system for NFS
I want to write my own custom file system in Linux. Can I share it over standard NFS without making any changes to the local NFS server? If so what VFS APIs are required to be implemented by my file ...
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Compiling the Linux kernel in Eclipse
I have a Mac running Snow Leopard and I know that I cannot compile the Linux kernel. I have used a Linux VM (virtualbox) to compile the kernel but I was wondering if I could compile it on Eclipse ...
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Invoking memory compaction on linux 2.6.35 kernels and beyond
This LWN article about memory compaction indicates that memory compaction can be invoked in the linux kernel by
Writing a node number to /proc/sys/vm/compact_node, causing compaction to happen on ...
