Re: Testing anti spam software
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On 07/24/07 01:39, Matthias wrote:
> Hello,
>
>> But that means that Debian Developers are the way that "Linux" (the
>> kernel? libc?, something else?) are deeply changing The Way Unix Works.
>>
>> And I just don't believe they'd do that. For one thing, they're all
>> pretty busy, and making such deep changes to every new version of
>> upstream would be "time consuming".
>>
>> Have you tried Fedora, SuSE, Slackware, etc?
>
> My system started with a Slackware base, now heavily mofified to run
> slack/RH style programs. The kernal has two flavors at least, the AC
> version and the LT version. I am most familst with these. Hurrd is a
> third version, but I am not that familar with it. AC (Alan Cox) and
> LT (Linus Torvalds) actually have very slight differences that have an
> impact on the low level functions. Libc adds to this along with
> different platforms (i386, so on)
>
> One of the classic C functions that illustrates this the best in
> gethostbyname_r. Some systems require 6 arguments, others 4. POSIIX
> vs SUSv2. Not having a debian system I can test means I could easily
> miss a very fine detail.
>
> Here's the man page 7 of signal:
>
> Signal Value Action Comment
>
[snip]
>
> You'll notice that certain signals have multiple numbers. Also the
> difference between POSIX and SUSv2. Such slight differences can have
> very slight but dramatic results on the operations of a program.
>
> It is important to know that all linux developers (kernel et all) are
> striving to gain the best utilization of current and new hardware. At
> times, this does have an impact of low level functions and their
> APIs. Its really the only way to move forward and progress.
Write a small do-nothing program that lets me test the USR & HUP
signals. Make it simple enough that a poor C programmer can
understand it. I'll compile and run it, then send you the results.
- --
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day.
Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good!
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