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Not sure it has. Last time I looked into this (admittedly, that was a few years ago), all I found was references to ext2 tools, nothing for ext3.

Okay, just did some quick googling, seems there...

I go to LNO for the first time in 3 years, and I see mdwatts being remembered on the front page, good surprise.

Amazing it's been 6 years already... He was a great guy.

Yes, but xargs has the advantage of being faster (because of the exact reasons you mention in the part I left out).
So find / -name \*foo* -exec echo "{}" will be slower than find / -name \*foo*...

If you use "slocate" (for secure locate) it will only give you results you user can access.
The main goal, obviously, is that a user can't "locate foo" to see if root/someone has a file named "foo"....

While I can imagine the other points you mentioned, this simply isn't possible. I'm not advocating Vista or anything, but you must've done something wrong there. That's simply not possible, IMHO.

Awesome explanations, it makes a lot more sense now -- thanks again. I'm getting the feeling that C won't be easy to learn though ;)

Are you thinking about a Turion X2 (i.e. dual core)? If so, chances are the Turion's better. Actually I don't know a lot about Intel's duo, but AMD's products are king for the moment. I read some...

Starting to understand it, tnx :)
Good to know about those define's, I vaguely read something about why enums were better than define's, but didn't get it back then.

Now that I see what you mean...

Yep, that's what I started to realize :)


What do you mean by 'long-running'? That this is a complicated instruction for the machine?


Thanks! While I knew most of those, I found that a bit...

:eek: omg, can't those C people speak English? I have no idea of what you just said :)
I hope the links will enlighten me, though the material seems kind of out of my league. Thanks a lot for them!

Cool, didn't know you could do that with strcpy, I thought you could only from one var to another. It makes a lot of sense though.
Anyway, sorry if I wasn't very clear, but my main problem isn't how...

I'm just starting out with C, so this is probably a stupid question...
Suppose I have this code:

1 #include <stdio.h>
2 int main(void)
3 {
4 struct personnel
...

Found a solution, posting it in case someone has the same problem:
I didn't have autoconf-2.13 installed, only autoconf-2.59.cvs.2006.05.25-1.
I installed 2.13, renamed /usr/bin/autoconf (a...

This is so totally absurd.
I edited the line before once more:

fi; \
echo -n "pwd: " ; pwd ; cd intl ; echo -n "pwd 2: " ; pwd ; \
(cd $$subdir && $(MAKE) $(AM_MAKEFLAGS)...

Well the actual line 20 of Makefile is this:
pkgdatadir = $(datadir)/proz

But (if I understand it correctly) makefiles just contain a bunch of stuff, like what it's going to build etc, some...

Yeah, that returns the same problem. It's really not a permissions problem I think.

Edit:
By the way it's not just 'make' -- if I do 'make clean', I get the same.
For instance:

Making clean...

Hi all,

I'm having a very weird problem.
Some software I can install by compilation just fine, but some (prozilla, kphotoalbum, abiword) I can't. They each have the exact same problem.

I'll...

Not sure if you want to "track" your users only during the session (I guess so based on the follow-ups), but if so wouldn't it be possible to just use a session variable in PHP/ASP/whatever...

Ok so maybe I can understand the talking, but why the surfing, etc? I don't see how that could possible bother _you_?

And isn't it a bit hypocrite to say this? I mean, it's not like you're always...

As a typical geek, I couldn't resist the temptation of running my own benchmarks... ;)

I've run each script four times, and there's no overall winner. However, these tests aren't 100% accurate, as...

It seems logical to me that 'tr' is faster as it's smaller than sed... it loads less into memory, has less stuff to check for, etc.
I would've expected the difference to be a bit bigger, actually.

Thanks a lot for the explanation bwkaz, I had no idea about that. Seems like a logical explanation though.
Thanks!

The question's been answered by bwkaz, the original poster, goon12 and quip already :)

(That being said, I'm sure a solution in another language wouldn't harm though - many could learn from it I...

Could someone please explain what the x's are for? I do understand how it works, I just don't get the reason... why not leave out the x-part?

Ah like that, now I get it. Sorry, I didn't understand what you where trying at first.
AFAIK the original poster doesn't need args, just exec it in a dir (unless I misread or something).

FYI: for...