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How i create application B that would be able to communicate with running application A?
I have background application A.
I want to create application B to configure application A on the fly.
So, how can I detect if A is running and send some messages to A?
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Why is there a type for process ids (pid_t), but not for file descriptors (fd)?
I see that pid_t is typedef'd in unistd.h, and file descriptors are defined to be int in fcntl.h. But since they are used in similar ways, wouldn't it make sense to have a typedef for file ...
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Good ways to host or distribute my patch for the Linux Kernel Mailing List
I have an approximately 1500 line patch for the Linux kernel - introducing a new file system.
I have lots of problems with posting a patch straight to the kernel mailing list (gmail mangles the ...
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Is using cookies from a web-browser a sane rationale for desktop application development?
I am looking at making an application that would make OpenID authentication with desktop clients easy. The rationale is to steal the cookies from the web-browser, so as to avoid having to hard-code ...
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Can Qt SDK be used for development on any Linux distro?
Fisrt of all I am a Windows developer guy but really like Linux. On Windows, Visual Studio provides an excellent IDE for C and C++ development. The only other IDE and toolkit I like is the Qt SDK and ...
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How can I install programming tools in the root directory so that they can be used by non-admin users?
I'm running OS X and for security reasons my main account does not have admin privileges. How can I install development tools in the root directory so that they can be used by all users? If this can't ...
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Where can I propose development ideas for Linux desktop?
I've got this idea for Linux desktop development which keep bugging me since a while. Now I can program a tiny bit, but it's just a hobby, so I'm not very good at it.
So I want to propose my idea ...
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Can I install “development-tools” offline? Or, how to make my CD the yum repository?
I'm looking for the "development-tools" for Fedora, but I can't find information about how/where to download it to install offline (I have no internet connection in my Fedora).
Attempt 1: There's a ...
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Is GNU PDF Library in active development?
I've been hearing about The GNU PDF Library since 2007. Since then I've been looking forward to see this tool in the wild, but four years have passed and it seems to me that this is a painfully long ...
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Finding session information about Firefox
I'm currently developing a piece of software whose functionality is dependent upon knowing the state of the current Firefox session running on the user's Ubuntu computer. The information it will need ...
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RHEL/CentOS: Installing a new version of Java, why not just change the path?
I am installing a new version of Java on a CentOS/RHEL Linux distro for a single developer to develop java.
The way I want to install on this development system is to just put the new java version ...
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How to use Linux kernel driver bind/unbind interface for USB-HID devices?
First background. I am developing a driver for Logitech game-panel devices. It's a keyboard with a screen on it. The driver is working nicely but by default the device is handled by HID. In order to ...
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IDE for large, multi-language projects (ie linux kernel)
I know the "which IDE do you guys use" question has been asked a million times. But I've never seen it asked in this context. What are some suggestions for an IDE when working on huge projects that ...
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Where might the dbus development (.h) files be for RHEL5?
A quick search from yum for dbus fails to turn up the devel related package that should provide dbus.h et al. Anybody have experience locating the relevant package? Should I just resort to getting ...
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Dump Page table layout (KERNEL CONFIG)
While configuring kernel for debugging found this option:
CONFIG_X86_PTDUMP: Export kernel
pagetable layout to userspace via
debugfs
Does this mean RAM page-table layouts ? any guides on how ...
