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Editing single value in file in C efficiently

I have a C program that currently edits a single value in a parameter file by using sed through a system call. I’d like to change the program to use the C file libraries to edit this value, but the only way I know how to do this is by reading in the entire file, changing the value, and rewriting

What type of memory objects does `shm_open` use?

Usually, shared memory is implemented using portions of On-Disk files mapped to processes address spaces. Whenever a memory access occurs on the shared region, the filesystem is involved to write changes on the disk which is a great overhead. Typically, a call to fopen() returns a file descriptor which is pas…

Makefile – wildcard and recipe build

I have the following makefile I got this message : make: Circular src/paquet/packet_implem.o <- src/paquet/packet_implem.o dependency dropped. gcc -std=c99 -Wall -Werror -Wshadow -Wextra -O2 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fstack-protector-all -lz -rdynamic -I/home/jy95/local/include -L/home/jy95/local/lib; /usr/lib…

Unable to connect to any specified mysql C#

I can’t connect to my sql server, i tried some fixes from stackoverflow and google and it didn’t help me. Thanks. To configure myuser I used this on my linux vps. i tried : Unable to connect to any of the specified mysql hosts. C# MySQL ( i tried to use MySqlConnectionStringBuilder, don’t sp…

Get all mount points in kernel module

I’m trying to get all the mount points in a kernel module. Below is what I’ve come up with. It segfaults because of the strcat. Is this the correct way to get the mount points? Will this work? if so how do i fix the segfault? If not, how does one go about getting the mount points in a linux

How to ensure a posix c socket is still valid

I,m working on an embedded linux kernel 2.6 device and need to know if previously established socket is still valid or not,Also I can not do this with usual send function and check the returned value,because if I send to the invalid socket descriptor,my application will crash and linux will shut down my proce…