For some reason, Ubuntu installer won't let you choose password for root user during the installation of the operating environment (OE). Then how do we run commands which need root privileges? The answer is simple: by using sudo.From what I read/understand, the user that we create during the installation of OE will have sudo privileges to run root only commands. But I am pretty sure that it is inconvenient to prepend the string sudo before all such commands. So, it is better to login as root user rather than the normal user, when a large number...
Tuesday, 20 June 2006
Wednesday, 14 June 2006
Sun Studio: symbol collisions revisited
Posted on 02:02 by Unknown
Even though my blog entry C/C++: global const variables, symbol collisions & symbolic scoping and article Reducing Symbol Scope with Sun Studio C/C++ discuss about techniques to avoid symbol collisions in great length with examples, apparently they failed to provide a simple way to detect if the anomalous behavior is due to a symbol conflict. This blog entry tries to fill that gap with the help of Sun Studio debugger dbx and Solaris' link-edit tracing facility.Let us start with the obligatory example first. % cat dummy.c #include...
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