06-08-2005
Thanks again.
Sorry about the lengthy thread, I usually try to make my inquiries with as much detail as possible to avoid confusion but half the time I guess I achieve the opposite.
Yes, you understood my thread perfectly. And yes, I think that will be enough for what I wish to do now.
8 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting
1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I was just wondering if it would be alright to dual boot a machine with both UNIX using XTERM for the interface and windows 98 or if people consider this a bad idea? if you consider it bad do tell me some possible alternatives..also would it be better to get linux over pure unix? I'd like a visual... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: PravusMentis
8 Replies
2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I was told that it's a Bad Idea (especially for root ) to Add To the Variable $PATH in unix the ":." (dot),
In order to execute programs in my current directory without typing ./program
For example: PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin:.
Does someone know why is it a Bad Idea? (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: amitbern
2 Replies
3. Shell Programming and Scripting
txt file like this,
1 2 3 4456
a bb c d 3 f e
1 k 32 d m f e
123 m 2 k
every line contains 3 or more columns, all the columns are separated by space, and every column includes 1 to 3 character.
what I wanna do is deleting the first three columns, and keep the rest no matter how long... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: fedora
7 Replies
4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Reading this file. I want to read all 4 fields.
If 2 is populated with a p, I want to set $TYPEP to "Printers",
if not should be empty.
If 3 is populated with an r, I want to set $TYPER to "REQ Printers"
if not should be empty.
If 4 is populated with letter o, I want to set $TYPEO to... (12 Replies)
Discussion started by: Skyybugg
12 Replies
5. OS X (Apple)
Well i was tidying up some files in a very important directory on our development server and somehow some plank had put a recursive sybmolic link in it. Which I the even bigger plank tried to delete from my FTP client. My FTP client then thought it would be OK to delete not only the sybmolic link... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: timgolding
0 Replies
6. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Hi folks.
I work with several production servers, and I have seen in some Kernel Cache using most of the memory.
See this pic:
http://i51.tinypic.com/301nb6c.jpg
Do you think this is a smart choice? Remember these are productions servers and it is extremely necesary this does not... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: erick_tuk
6 Replies
7. Red Hat
is placing two RAID5 arrays on disk as shown below Is advisable? Will this create performance problems?
sda-(500GB) sdb-(1TB) sdc-(1TB) sdd-(1TB)
(250MB)----------(250MB) ---------unused------------unused------->(/dev/md0) RAID1
... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: Saed
6 Replies
8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have a shell script where a lot of the code is repeated. I wanted to make the code much more compact so I spoke to a guy and he suggested using arrays, like follows:
#!/bin/bash
readonly -a nginx=('nginx' '--prefix=/opt' '-j 4'
'http://nginx.org/download/nginx-1.2.2.tar.gz'
)... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: Spadez
2 Replies
LEARN ABOUT HPUX
pthread_detach
pthread_detach(3T) pthread_detach(3T)
NAME
pthread_detach() - mark a thread as detached to reclaim its resources when it terminates
SYNOPSIS
PARAMETERS
thread Thread whose resources are to be reclaimed immediately when it terminates.
DESCRIPTION
is used to detach the thread thread. When thread terminates, its resources will automatically be reclaimed by the system. If thread has
already terminated, causes the resources of thread to be reclaimed by the system.
does not cause thread to terminate.
Once a detached thread has terminated, its resources, including the thread ID, may be reused by the system. The return status of a detached
thread is lost when the thread terminates.
Calling this function multiple times for the same thread results in undefined behavior.
RETURN VALUE
Upon successful completion, returns zero. Otherwise, an error number is returned to indicate the error (the variable is not set).
ERRORS
If any of the following occur, the function returns the corresponding error number:
[EINVAL] thread does not refer to a joinable thread.
[ESRCH] No thread could be found corresponding to thread.
AUTHOR
was derived from the IEEE POSIX P1003.1c standard.
SEE ALSO
pthread_create(3T), pthread_join(3T), wait(2).
STANDARDS CONFORMANCE
Pthread Library pthread_detach(3T)