On Sunday 17 Jul 2011, Sharad Birmiwal wrote:
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 4:59 AM, Anupam Jain ajn...@gmail.com
wrote:
Hi all,
I originally posted this question on
stackoverflowhttp://stackoverflow.com/questions/6624622/what-happe
How about an strace of both methods to see what is the difference in
signal handling between the shell and sudo? I'd do it myself but I'm
Here you go. At first glance, I don't see anything revealing in the dumps.
http://pastebin.com/e6mDBJKK (interrupted by ^C)
http://pastebin.com/aG6R8pYh
Sharad Birmiwal said on Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 10:00:20AM -0400,:
The reason is because apt-get invokes a program called http to
download packages. Here is what I tried.
While I do find the thread interesting, and commend your efforts, I
suspect this statement.
There is no program called
There is no program called `http' on a GNU/Linux system. What you have
is one of those confounded members of the apt, dpkg family has what
they call 'method' to get the packages. If you configured your
I agree that it is part of apt but http is an elf, executable program
in itself. It is
On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 9:35 PM, Mahesh T. Pai paiva...@gmail.com wrote:
Sharad Birmiwal said on Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 10:00:20AM -0400,:
The reason is because apt-get invokes a program called http to
download packages. Here is what I tried.
While I do find the thread interesting, and
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Anupam Jain ajn...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
I originally posted this question on
stackoverflowhttp://stackoverflow.com/questions/6624622/what-happens-in-bash-when-you-do-ctrl-c-hint-its-not-simply-sending-a-sigint,
but did not receive a satisfactory response.
On Sunday 17 Jul 2011, Sharad Birmiwal wrote:
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I tried $ /usr/lib/apt/methods/http www.yahoo.com but that didn't
seem to start fetching the file. As noted already, it's probably part
of the apt family and has it's own invocation method. apt developers
for some reason
Reason for the executable (note: not even a Perl script) is probably
that apt-get (dpkg?) can run on a bare system before anything else is
Yup, that makes sense.
SB
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