C is a general-purpose computer programming language used for operating systems, games and other high performance work and is clearly distinct from C++. It was developed in 1972 by Dennis Ritchie for use with the Unix operating system.

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No acceptable C compiler found in $PATH [closed]

Using CentOS VPS, installed GCC as well as development tools, error still comes up. Path is set to (i'm assuming by default) /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/root/bin
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File i/o in C not displaying [closed]

Why will nothing display? #include <stdio.h> #include <string.h> #include <malloc.h> struct cities { char name[32]; int temp; }; void main() { int i = 5; int ...
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Wait until SSH succeeds creating a port forwarding

I am calling ssh (OpenSSH) from a OSX/Linux-C++-Application via fork/exec to create a dynamic port forwarding. This is done using batch mode (-o BatchMode=yes) and a private key which is supplied to ...
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when trying to install the watir or watir-webdriver gem on Windows 7 via cygwin, getting long C stack trace with mentions of “W32 socket” issues

When running: $ gem install watir on Windows 7 (cygwin), I get this ERROR: Error installing watir: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension. /usr/bin/ruby.exe extconf.rb checking for ffi.h... ...
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How to run a Perl script in a Unix environment from Windows?

A little background: I am trying to interact with data I have saved in Perl files using a program I wrote in C using the Win32 API. The C program is in Windows and the Perl files are accessed ...
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load balancing for dual wan interfaces on uclinux

I am trying to write load balancing shell script on my embedded mips board with uclinux. I have one 3G and other ADSL connection to connect to Internet. With $ip a platform shows both interfaces ...
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NetBeans + MinGW + C - file not found

I have installed NetBeans 7.3 (twice this day), and installed MinGW (many times today). My OS Win 7 64 I tried to install MinGW with MSYS, tried MinGW with MSYS and MinGW DT, MinGW without MSYS, ...
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Open multiple tabs and split window based on files in Vim

I'm wondering, is there a way to open all my *.[c] files on different tabs, but split the window with the corresponding *.[h] file from the command line? I can split one file as: vim -O file1.c ...
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Fedora 17 LXDE missing man 2 and man 3 C functions

everyone. I am using Fedora 17, and I need to refer to some C functions, but man 2 malloc or man 3 malloc ( malloc for example ) are not working. Also man (function) is not working too. Any clues? I ...
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What is the command to show the disk usage in JFFS2 filesystem(which is a compressed filesystem)?

What is the command to show the disk usage in JFFS2 filesystem(which is a compressed filesystem)? I am using "df" to get total size and "du" to get used space, from that I can calculate the space ...
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How to stop and detect the fork bomb

#include <stdlib.h> #include <unistd.h> int main() { while(1) fork(); } This is the code for a fork bomb. In our college, we connect via telnet i.e client serving protocol. ...
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apache httpd libapr linking .a .so

Problem I need to compile and install an Apache module on AIX 6.1. This is the module A. The Apache module is available only as source. I manageg to compile the source and the .so module was ...
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How to set the time temporarily in Linux

I am testing some code with some random numbers generated with the current time as the seed using srand(time(0)) I'd like to get the same random numbers every time when I run it. So I want to set ...
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Which Package has net_tstamp.h?

I attempted to compile the source code here: http://os1a.cs.columbia.edu/lxr/source/Documentation/networking/timestamping/timestamping.c?a=x86;v=2.6.32 However, I got a compiler error: error: ...
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apxs error apache aix rc=65536

I am trying to install the Crowd Apache Connector with (IBM xlc compiler, AIX 6.1 ). I am able to make , but when running make install, it fails : Making install in src cp ...
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USB Driver for Windows [closed]

I want to make a usb driver in c for windows. I have good background in c and c++. Can anybody suggest me how should i start my development?any suggestion?
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Aptana Studio 3/Xcode 4.6 C Compiler for Mac

I have been looking all around the internet for an easier way for me to start C programming with the gcc module for Mac. Due to my fondness of Aptana Studio, I decided to see if their was a compiler ...
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Best assembler -> C book? [closed]

I know there are good assembler books and there are good C/C++ books, but is there a book which maps the two programming languages/levels together?
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Environment variable's address is changing?

Don't ask why I am not posting this at Stack. So I have this small C program. It returns the address of the environment variable specified in argv[1]. #include <stdio.h> #include ...
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How to write the program? [closed]

I press the control keys like ctrl+c and ctrl+d in run time of the program.The program is print the signal name. for example I press the ctrl+c means it print the name of the signal print "You ...
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Ltmain.sh not found error

I am using currently fedora 17 when I try to autoreconf -i I am getting error [root@nikolay libpackedobjects]# autoreconf -i configure.ac:44: required file `../ltmain.sh' not found autoreconf: ...
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OSX: Remaining in terminal after C program executes

2nd edit Some clarifying... I wrote a C program that asks for input (in this case, using fgets()). When I compile it into a C executable, I notice this behavior: If I run the executable from the ...
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Making the keyboard eject switch work

I am using Linux.My keyboard switch for ejecting the CDROM does not work though it displays an eject button on the screen. I need to make it work. I know ejecting a cdrom using system call is as ...
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Copy C Drive, will it start up? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Clone a Hard Disk Content to Another Hard Disk Bit-for-bit copy of hard drive in Windows? I was just wondering, if you simply using something like gparted to ...
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execvp exec format error for shell script on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

We have two RHEL 6 systems that are running identical versions of the kernel and glibc (glibc–2.12–1.90.el6_3.6). According to the POSIX standard and the Linux man pages, if the kernel determines that ...
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Compressing multiple files into multiple archives?

I have a folder full of pdfs and I'm tired of Winraring each file separately. I don't want to put them all in one archive. Isn't there a command line I can use to make Winrar compress a file with ...
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Makefile support for Tiny C Compiler

I just found the brilliant Tiny C Compiler while searching for a small portable C compiler for Windows (I cannot install anything on this system or copy files to it and so need to compile directly on ...
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Extra file with Same Name Created Automatically while writing a program in unix

Some time while writing a program for example convert.c a file with same name followed by tiled(~) convert.c~ gets created in same directory. why is this so and whats really happening .please explain ...
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What would cause different rates of packet loss between client and server in UDP?

If I've implemented a reliable UDP file transfer protocol and I have a file that deliberately drops a percentage of packets when I transmit, why would it be more evident that transmission time ...
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GNU Emacs is crashing with -nw

When I run emacs with -nw option, the emacs really open, but I can't do more nothing. As if the user input is blocked and no keyboard signal is received and/or interpreted. I've tried run without load ...
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How to maximize GNOME Terminal on Linux

Environment: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, C language , Eclipse IDE for C/C++ Developers Question: I'm programming a typing tutor which run on GNOME terminal, i want to maximize terminal when run ...
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How do I install package libc6-dev-i386 on fedora?

When I make yum install libc6-dev-i386 it says no package found, I searched on google and I only found that package for ubuntu or debian.
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syncing large files FreeBSD

I'm having a hard time getting my head around this. My test setup has a shell script continuously calling 'ls -la' on a 1G file and printing out the time since the last time it ran. I then run a ...
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How can I install GCC on Mac OS X Lion without Xcode

I find it really hard to believe there is not simple solution to installing GCC on Mac without having to download and install 1GB+ of xCode. I found a site that helps reduce the amount of programs to ...
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Launch Webkit Gtk+ on ubuntu 11.10

I am using Webkit nightly build revision 110829 on Ubuntu 11.10. I successfully build it. Here is what I did: In the Webkit directory I run: Tools/Scripts/build-webkit --gtk Built succeeded. I ...
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How to pass an IP address to inet_addr? [closed]

I can't seem to pass an IP address to inet_addr. I have gone through the debug but I still can't figure out why this won't work. printf("Server IP\nIP:"); scanf("%s",cmdPtr); //Bind socket ...
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Get current thread id in kernel based C code (Linux)

I have a module which is accessed for read/write operations to a proc file. I know I can get current process id using current->pid, but is there a way to get the current thread id that is accessing ...
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How to keep Ubuntu 11.10 and Kate editor w/terminal from changing command line when changing tabs?

I am programming C using Kate editor in Ubuntu 11.10. It works great, but when I change tabs in Kate, the terminal line changes to the file path of the tab I click on. Normally this is not a big deal ...
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How can I get the number of threads running in a process from /proc/[pid]/stat in Linux?

I have the pid of the process. I would like to know the current number of thread running in the process. I know I can read /proc/pid/stat for this information, but I'm not sure how to specifically get ...
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View C source files (and files in other programming lanugages) in Icewasel/Firefox

How do I make C files appear in the browser's window when I navigate to them on a web page? (I use Iceweasel which should be identical to Firefox.) I don't want to download the file, not open it in ...
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Kernel hacking methodology - how to find out where to hack the linux kernel

I have a throw-away cheap laptop I'd like to twiddle around, a Thinkpad SL 500. What bothers me are two leds, the one for wireless connectivity, and the one for hibernation, which don't light up at ...
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Not satisfied with output [closed]

I am currently learning C. I follow this tutorial: http://www.tutorialspoint.com/cprogramming/c_structures.htm. Here is my code: #include <stdio.h> #include <string.h> struct plang { ...
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Developing I/O port [closed]

I'm a EE and I'm looking to setup some home creations but I need some help on the CS side. I'm wanting to come up with a home server type setup with some I/O, like a parallel port I can set high and ...
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Installing Cygwin C and C++ compilers for NetBeans IDE 7.2

I am very new to Cygwin, C, C++ and NetBeans IDE 7.2. My PC is running MICROSOFT WINDOWS 7 OS. I have read the documentation on how to install the Cygwin C C++ compilers. ...
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Enter Password when idle for minutes in CentOs

How to let a user login or enter his password again when idle for minutes in CentOs? thanks,,if there's no option for these in CentOs, then maybe you can suggest how to make a program that behaves ...
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How to make sizeof? [closed]

I was told to make sizeof function. Which will work same as sizeof operator. I build for single integer. Via pointer which will give sizeof pointer. But how to make for array of integer. In short My ...
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C program output file gnome-terminal

I have created a C program and made an executable under Linux. Right now, I open the executable by going first to gnome-terminal and then type ./<filename> I want to create a shortcut icon ...
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How to run C project in Eclipse IDE?

I downloaded Eclipse IDE for from here and I create a sample project from here I followed steps as above link.But in code displays error in "#include" header file.how do I resolve this issue.Please ...
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How to clear orphaned watch descriptors of inotify

After creating a file descriptor by calling inotify_init() I add thousands of watches to the inotify instance(hope it is right to call that so). My questions is if my program crashes what happens to ...
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Does linux have any measures to protect against fork bombs?

#include <unistd.h> int main(int argc, char* argv[]) { while(1) { fork(); } } I run this program on my linux, nothing outputs on the terminal, the OS seems go dead. Does linux have ...

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