Forum: Programming / Scripting

OK when you open a serial port, you get a file descriptor returned. If I wanted to write a hexadecimal value to a serial port using the fwrite...

im looking for a Java IDE for SuSE 10.1 I have tried Netbenas, and I like it but i need to be able to run singel files without being in a Netbeans...

I'am trying to write a GUI interface for a encryption programing, I'am useing X window. I'am trying to make a mouse driver. I would like to use irq...

Hi, I'm totally new to programming linux device drivers, but I have programmed other sorts of device drivers under traditional real-timer...

Hi, First of all I want to say Hi to everybody. Secondly I do not have any background in Linux, but I am facing a strange problem. I have...

OS: is Fedora Core 4 I am not very good with linux scripting, and I have been trying to get this script to work. So let me explain what this is. The...

Hello, I am busy working with messages queues. i would like to simulate a client-server implementation using messages queues. the first thing i do...

I'm new, of course, and I wanted to know how do you create a script that prompts user to type a username and password and to encrypt the password?

Is it possibile that the linux kernel send signals to my multithreaded process indipendently (without any user execute kill command)? My process ...

Hi I have an issue. I actually want to recursively copy all the contents in a dir to a certain other locations but not till the max depth but only...

Hi! I am writing a game =) using Qt library. The game was successfully compiled using Qt2/X11. But when I tried to build it for embedded linux...

Hi, I am using ksh. I have to find wether data file has EOL or not. as per my knowledge we can easily find by checking each character. But this...

I've been looking in the documentation and see that if you use the '-- filename arg1 arg2 ... etc.' on the ghost script commandline, the arguments...

Fisrt I will set the scene. I have a Doman at work and every user has their username/home Directory the same as their email address. So i have made...

Hi! I am using posix threads in my application. I am explicitly setting the priorities and the scheduling policy. POSIX threads support 3 types of...

Is it legal to use "Tux" in icons for commercial Linux software? Thanks!

When doing this: gcc first.c -o first `pkg-config --cflags --libs gtk+-2.0` I get this: /usr/local/lib/libpangoft2-1.0.so.0: undefined...

Reading text files with shell script. Can someone show me a simple way to read say line 2 of a text file and place it into a variable lisk $HWType ...

Hey, I have made a script that echos this echo `/sbin/arp |grep -v incomplete |grep -v "Address HWtype HWaddress" |grep -v "Address ...

Ok, this how it should work: I have two generic video output modules and generic video decoders (the are abstred so I can choose the real...