Top "Systems-programming" questions

System programming is the activity of computer programming system software.

Segmentation fault after the call of pthread_join()

I have written the following code using the POSIX pthread library: #include<stdio.h> #include<stdlib.h&…

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How to make thread in C without using POSIX library <pthread.h>

I want to implement the multiple threading in C without using any of the POSIX library. Any help would be …

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Accessing wireless interface (802.11) at MAC layer (Linux)

I spent the last days reading through man pages, documentations and anything else google brought up, but I suppose I'm …

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How to get information from device manager?

How can I, in my C# applictation, read specific information about a device? I have tried WMI and it does …

c# .net windows device systems-programming
system call return values and errno

I am using following system calls in my program: recvfrom sendto sendmsg And from each system call mentioned above I …

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*nix select and exceptfds/errorfds semantics

The select syscall takes 3 filedescriptor sets for watching fds for readable/writeable and "exceptions" on filedescriptor. My select man page …

c unix select systems-programming
We have to use C "for performance reasons"

In this age of many languages, there seems to be a great language for just about every task and I …

c linux embedded systems-programming
Information on N-way set associative Cache stides

Several of the resources I've gone to on the internet have disagree on how set associative caching works. For example …

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