Code, Strings, and Keys

Did a distro upgrade on Kubuntu to 6.10. Everything was working nicely–firefox 2.0, etc… but I hadn’t rebooted yet. My linux box isn’t a critical system at work, it’s subjected to the whims of the neighborhood power grid. Thus, it had to be turned on after the long weekend. This morning, I discovered that I…

From the Linux Programmer’s Manual:“On Linux, the function select modifies timeout to reflect the amount of time not slept; most other implementations do not do this. This causes problem both when Linux code which reads timeout is ported to other operating systems, and when code is ported to Linux that reuses a struct timeval for…

Upgrading Ubuntu from 6.06 Dapper Drake to 6.10 Edgy Eft