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Sir ,

Is there any way for me to disable force (-f ) options to linux commands like rm. I tried to alias rm -f.
alias rm -f = "rm -i"

but it shows bad alias name error

I need...

Hi all,

My requirement is to read network traffic int userlevel . I am using C programming in Centos 5 with 2.6.18 kernel.

For example can i read the file contents which I...

Sir,

Do linux have device file for ethernet card. Can I use open , read , write , system calls to read data transferred through LAN. Is there any methods to read network datas (with out header...

Thanks for the reply. But I want a timer in kernel space. We cannot use alarm functions in kernel space. That is why I posted this in linux forum. I want to user add_timer() setup_timer functions in...

Hi ,


I am trying to learn timers in linux kernel. I am trying to write a program where I can configure a timer to tick in every 5 seconds and a function should thus exicute in every...

Thanks for the reply eventhough it was late. As you said these macros tells about some mouse protocols and I had already understood it. Any way thank you otheus.

Hello masters,

Can any one tell me what is siginitsetinv() function in kernel.
I have seen that function called in many codes. And that function is defined in linux/signal.h . But...

Thanks (https://www.unix.com/members/13665.html)s93366 ...... That was very useful..............That cleared all......... (https://www.unix.com/members/13665.html)

Hi masters,

I am still learning trades in kernel. I am trying to learn the basic of daemon programming. Can any one tell me how can I start a daemon automatically during boot up. I...

Masters,
I am trying to learn the serial mouse driver for linux kernel. On the kernel source tree I find out these macros and I am unable to find out the meaning of these macros....

In C.....Why........

Thanks otheus...... You are brilliant....... Please help me little bit more.......
So you are saying ff is same and FF......so
0xFFUL is 0x000000FF
and
0xff000000 is 0xFF000000
Am I...

Sir,

I am trying to learn how to write a device driver for an input device. As a start I tried to understand the actual device driver code written for linux 2.6.9 kernel. It is always...

Hi masters,

I am using fedora 2.6.23.1-42.fc8 kernel and am trying to design a packet filtering system using netfilter. But in the above mentioned kernel I couldn't find the...

Or to make the questions simple, How can i give my hook function and ioctl function higher priority that the work queue's.

Hi masters,

I am doing a project to regulate network bandwidth. I am using workqueue to implement packets management (I uses kernel threads inside each of these work queue) , netfilter hooks to...

Is there any replacement for tq_struct in 2.6 kernel. How can we queue different tasks in 2.6?
Thanks wempy for your quick replay. Please help me to find a solution.

Hi masters,

I am new to kernel programming and learning its trade. I am writing a module for lan bandwidth manager. I designed one module successfully for 2.4 kernel . But when I...

hi masters,

I am new to kernel programming and learning its trade. I am writing a module for lan bandwidth manager. I designed one module successfully for 2.4 kernel . But when I tried to...

Thanks for the quick reply.

On " which acroread " command the following is displayed.

/sbin/acroread

I checked /sbin/acroread file it was a shell script. Not an exicutable. Then I...

Hi,

When I run the command acroread it is giving error

ERROR: Cannot find installation directory.

When I look at /usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/bin/ an exicutable file named acroread...

Masters,

I have inserted a linux module which controlls the bandwidth of LAN . Just when I insmod'ed kernel panicked. When restarted I am stunned to find out that many of my other modules are...

Hi masters,

I am new to linux and unix forum and this is my first forum. So please excuse if
I am not giving sufficient information. I will give them on request.
I have created a...