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gotcha, just figured it out. thanks, Corona!

great, thanks!

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one last question, how do I store an entire line per array index?

say i typed "dog is...

Thanks, fpmurphy!

The one issue i have is that the input is coming from char *av, so only av[0] is storing the inputs. I guess what i'm trying to achieve is that is it possible to hardcopy...

i'm trying to figure out how to store strings into an array, can someone help me figure it out?

i would like to store the following for example:

array[0] = "dog"
array[1] = "cat"

the...

its a sun. I figured it out, it's just system("name");

Thanks!

Hello,

how would i be able to call ps in C programming?

thanks,

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here's the complete system call,...

ah okay, thank you.

okay! thx...

is write() = 27 just to make sure that 27 bytes are written?

to make sure it doesn't return -1?

Hi,

I'm trying to understand the arguments from this system call, can someone help me figure it out?

write(1, "/home/nick/11sp/fred\n", 27/home/nick/11sp/fred) = 27

for argument 1, i know it...

I have a while loop like so:


while (counter (file1));


how can I pass that into a pthread_create()?

I was thinking ...


while(pthread_create(&path, NULL, counter, file));


is that...

I'm trying to run a simple test on how to use fork(), i'm able to execute the child process first then the parent, but how can I execute parent then child..?

Thanks!

what is struct winsize used for?

i tried looking it up, but no luck.

I'm testing out how to use SIGCHLD and I had a question about intercepting the signal and executing an action in the signal handler.

signal(SIGCHLD,countdown);

What I'm trying to achieve is be...

thanks!

I was thinking in terms of C programming. Is there a struct I can declared to retrieve the attributes?

what can I use to find the last modified time of a /dev/tty ?

i'm writing a code that passes the shells process id and the time set till the pid is killed.

the argument from the terminal looks like this:
./timeout $$ 4
now $$ specifies the shell pid, how...

thanks

i'm trying to write a c code to copy a soft link over to a specified directory. Is it possible to do this without using symlink()?

if so, what can I use?

Thanks!

tabbing is too far, i need to put only 4-5 spaces

how can I format this so the output looks like so:
811420 -rwx------ 1 cw33221 student 8952 Jan 26 2011 a.out

I keep getting this

811420 -rwx------ 1 cw33221 student ...

sorry, I think i'm getting things mixed up.

I understand what mallocs does now. Thank you!

Does malloc allocate space for output files? That's what I had in mind, I was trying to dynamically allocate space from a read input file. It seems that malloc would be used only to create...

How can I use malloc with copying/creating files?

Is this the correct way?

I'm a bit confused...


int in_fd;
int *out_fd;
char buffer;



in_fd = open(av[1], O_RDONLY);
...

is this the correct way to check for "." and ".." ??? All the screen prints out when scanning a directory is

output:

dot
dot
dot
dot
dot
dot


while((direntp = readdir(dir_ptr)) !=...