Is it possible to unlisten on a socket after you have called listen(fd, backlog)? Edit: My mistake for not making myself clear. I’d like to be able to temporarily unlisten on the socket. Calling close() will leave the socket in the M2LS state and prevent me from reopening it (or worse, some nefarious pr…
Tag: linux
How can I search for a multiline pattern in a file?
I needed to find all the files that contained a specific string pattern. The first solution that comes to mind is using find piped with xargs grep: But if I need to find patterns that spans on more than one line, I’m stuck because vanilla grep can’t find multiline patterns. Answer So I discovered …
IDE’s for C# development on Linux?
What are my options? I tried MonoDevelop over a year ago but it was extremely buggy. Is the latest version a stable development environment? Answer MonoDevelop 2.0 has been released, it now has a decent GUI Debugger, code completion, Intellisense C# 3.0 support (including linq), and a decent GTK# Visual Desig…
How to create a file with a given size in Linux?
For testing purposes I have to generate a file of a certain size (to test an upload limit). What is a command to create a file of a certain size on Linux? Answer For small files: Where file_size is the size of your test file in bytes. For big files:
How do I find my PID in Java or JRuby on Linux?
I need to find the PID of the current running process on a Linux platform (it can be a system dependent solution). Java does not support getting the process ID, and JRuby currently has a bug with the Ruby method, Process.pid. Is there another way to obtain the PID? Answer If you have procfs installed, you can…
Handling file paths cross platform
Do any C++ GNU standalone classes exist which handle paths cross platform? My applications build on Windows and LInux. Our configuration files refer to another file in a seperate directory. I’d like to be able to read the path for the other configuration file into a class which would work on both Linux …
Is there a way to check if there are symbolic links pointing to a directory?
I have a folder on my server to which I had a number of symbolic links pointing. I’ve since created a new folder and I want to change all those symbolic links to point to the new folder. I’d considered replacing the original folder with a symlink to the new folder, but it seems that if I continued…
svn over HTTP proxy [closed]
Closed. This question is off-topic. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it’s on-topic for Stack Overflow. Closed 10 years ago. Improve this question I’m on laptop (Ubuntu) with a network that use HTTP proxy (only http connections allowed). W…
How do I use sudo to redirect output to a location I don’t have permission to write to? [closed]
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Embed data in a C++ program
I’ve got a C++ program that uses SQLite. I want to store the SQL queries in a separate file — a plain-text file, not a source code file — but embed that file in the executable file like a resource. (This has to run on Linux, so I can’t store it as an actual resource as far as I know,