How morecore() works

Hi Friends, Can anybody please tell me how does __morecore() functions works in malloc() implementation of glibc ? Regards, Nitin

Re: USB Doubt

On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 11:54:45PM +0530, Niamathullah sharief wrote: > Hi friends, > I want to know about USB devices. I mean,From where the device is searching > for driver when we insert the device into USB port? Please read the USB chapter in the book, Linux Device Drivers, Third Edition, fre

Re: system calls that require disk access

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 11:56 AM, krushnaal pai wrote: > can sumone plz give me a complete list of the system calls(according to > linux kernel 2.6.18 or above) that makes disk access at some point of time. > > For eg. read sys call makes a disk access when it doesnt find the page in > page cache.

Re: FS block size and Architecture Dependency

On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Greg Freemyer wrote: > On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 8:59 AM, Rishi Agrawal > wrote: >> I could not figure out the dependency between the file system block size and >> the architecture. >> >> Can somebody guide me in this ? > > Rishi, > > I don't know the answers, but I'

Re: Signal problem

Hello Laurentziu Dascalu Except SIGKILL and SIGSTOP, you can use custom signal handler function, which will serve your problem. atexit can be used, if you want to do some specific tasks just before exiting the program. You can pass a function pointer to atexit. Shameem - Original Messa

USB Doubt

Hi friends, I want to know about USB devices. I mean,From where the device is searching for driver when we insert the device into USB port? Please help me