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How do I find out, since which Linux version a kernel API function/macro is availible, or have undergone breaking changes (was removed, change of the type or number of arguments). For example while ...
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I have noticed that some drivers are more difficult to find for certain distributions of Linux. Is it possible to make a driver interface or driver API that is the same for multiple Linux ...
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I've been searching for a while but I haven't found anything that 100% matches what I would like to achieve. I'm submitting data to an API and getting a response. I can see the submission is ...
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I have a some internally available servers (all Debian), that share a LetsEncrypt wildcard certificate (*.local.example.com). One server (Server1) keeps the certificate up-to-date and now I'm looking ...
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I want to write a program that can get information about a user, specifically last login time in unix timestamp format using kernel API (not using any shell cmd). What function do I need to call to ...
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I have a file called /etc/chromium.d/apikeys which has the following contents, # API keys assigned to Debian by Google for access to their services like sync and gmail. export GOOGLE_API_KEY="...
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For example the Samsung Galaxy S10 has an Exynos 9820 CPU with integrated NPU. We all know Android is based on Linux. So where can I find the Linux API documentation about how to interact with the NPU?...
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What specifically needs to be changed in the below in order for a program running on an Ubuntu-latest GitHub runner to successfully connect to a Twisted web server running on localhost of the same ...
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A bit related to this previous question of mine, I wonder if there's a way to query what is the current layout. Say I have run setxkbmap -layout it,ru -variant ,phonetic -option 'grp:caps_toggle' and ...
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There is a path to the file, I make a write disk cache request via ioctl - ioctl(fd, SG_IO, &ioHdr). printk: sending ioctl 2285 to a partition!? how to find out which block device a partition ...
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So I have this curl command. But I want to store the API-key in a file called api.txt and have it load where the value is in the curl command. api.txt files contains 'X-Api:<API-KEY>' This ...
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I'm using the Ansible module for Bluecat to make an authorized API call to get some information about a subnet. The response looks something like this: "result": { "changed"...
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I am using the below command: curl -X GET 'https://<my_account>.atlassian.net/rest/api/3/project/search' This returns "header" information indicating that that command was successful:...
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There are already many questions similar to this but all the ones I could find have answers that suggest polling methods (1, 2) or seem like extreme hacks (3), so I want to ask the same question but ...
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File "/home/Desktop/booklib/env/lib/python3.8/site-packages/rest_framework/authentication.py", line 126, in authenticate self.enforce_csrf(request) File "/home/Desktop/booklib/env/...
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KDE has a feature called "media controls", with which I can control media from the lock screen. I would like to add this feature to a music software I'm working on. I tried to find the ...
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I always assumed the st_blocks field returned by stat()/lstat()... system calls and which du uses to get the disk usage of files was expressed in 512 bytes units. Checking the POSIX specification, I ...
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I am trying to make API post requests of JSON to a web server. This task needs to be asynchronous with least overhead. I am currently using CURL with infinite looping in bash and used '&' to make ...
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#include <linux/io_uring.h> main.c:1:10: fatal error: linux/io_uring.h: No such file or directory #include <linux/io_uring.h> ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Kernel version 5.4.0-80. I ...
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I have an apache proxy server setup with following in my .htaccess file #Header always set Access-Control-Allow-Origin "*" Header onsuccess unset Access-Control-Allow-Origin Header always ...
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ISO C / POSIX declare the time() function like this: time_t time(time_t *tloc); The documentation says: The time() function shall return the value of time in seconds since the Epoch. The tloc ...
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I am using an API and I'm not able to bind an Integer Variable into it. I will attach my script below, but a little explanation can't hurt: Another script filters data that is send via curl, most of ...
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I am trying to extract some info about github repositories using its API, apparently jq is the way to go. I can use this command to view all the available info: curl 'https://api.github.com/repos/tmux-...
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The Linux Programming Interface summarizes UNIX/Linux IPC facilities for communication and synchronization Is there dependency between any of the facilities? Either between their interfaces or their (...
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As the title says, im using firefox network explorer to consume an API, i've copied several things sucessfully like this, but this one gives a different result So, in the web the query is a GET to ...
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I have a shell script making a cur call that returns a response JSON payload containing a URL value with \ character in it as it returns the encoded value for a symbol like =. However, the echo of the ...
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I'm trying to figure out whether it would be undefined behaviour to open a memory map to a file with a very large length. My use-case is that I want to be able to see new data when the file is ...
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If I am correct, a process waits for its children to terminate or stop by calling the waitpid() or wait() function. What is the relation between SIGCHLD signal and the waitpid() orwait() functions? ...
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I am working to put an API behind WSO2 API Manager installed on premise. I designed the API, added the endpoint and add a first mediation sequence which add Authorization header at runtime. And it ...
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A curl command in a Bash script (called by cron) asks a web service/API, on another device/server (hosts both the API and the SQL database), to perform an operation on a database. How long this ...
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I just read an example of ABI. Is it correct that an ABI is similar to API, except that ABI is in machine language and API is in a high level programming language an ABI is the interface provided by ...
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I am trying to run the API from the URL window or "from browser" but receive an error In the first line is the instruction on how it should be done and on the second line how I did it and the error ...
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I'm not an expert nor very proficient in OS and shell commands, and that's why I've come for help. I was successfully storing my API Keys for my Flutter project as Environment Variables, until I had ...
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I want to audit ubuntu iptable rules with openapi REST. So, I need swagger file. Can anyone guide me how to do this? Actually I am using Azure Logic App and I want to use custome api connector for ...
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I work with C# in my spare time and have written a number of programs as one of my hobbys. So I dont consider myself a programmer, I just like to write solutions for problems I come across. My latest ...
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I have multiple phones I am trying to obtain the up time for phones. I have enabled REST API for all phones and am looking to run CURL scripts to get the value of uptime. I have a script to get the ...
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Is there any way to determine the vSphere virtual machine ID or name or UUID from a linux guest? I have administrative access to the guest, and would like to coordinate some maintenance actions ...
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I execute the following command: curl -G https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search \ -d part="id" \ -d q="es-por-ti-juanes" \ -d maxResults="1" \ -d key="..........." \ -d type="video" \ -d ...
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I was debugging a fuse filesystem that was reporting wrong sizes for du. It turned out that it was putting st_size / st_blksize [*] into st_blocks of the stat structure. The Linux manual page for stat(...
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I have some data on a nextcloud instance I don't administrate and I want to retrieve all calendar events I put on it. The documentation assume you have access to more than the web interface as a user (...
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I reversed statements in if/else, corrected now. I am reading a code snippet from Advanced Programming in the UNIX® Environment: The program tests its standard input to see whether it is capable of ...
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For process_vm_readv the linux man page states: [...] (Avoid) spanning memory pages (typically 4KiB) in a single remote iovec element. (Instead, split the remote read into two remote_iov elements ...
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I am trying to start a vm in paused mode, but running into issues. I'm able to connect to the API and start vms normally, but I cannot seem to get the params part right for staring paused. In this ...
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I was writing a bash script for Gmail that would authorize itself using OAuth2, and make API calls using the received tokens. It worked. But now I'm stuck on thinking how to securely store the Client ...
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I want to delete a particular branch in a repo with help of api using shell script i have gone through official document https://docs.atlassian.com/bitbucket-server/rest/4.14.4/bitbucket-branch-rest....
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How do I know, which Kernel modules in the Cryptographic API will be beneficial on my system? How can I see, if I have software, which will use the Kernel API? For example I use often RSA, but will ...
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We are developing embedded device which will integrate with some of our services in future. This device have limited set of functionalities and user defined mods for particular use cases. Based on arm ...
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From https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/436631/674 the file /proc/$$/environ ... does not reflect any changes to the environment, but just reports what the program received when it was execed by the ...
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I am trying to connect to a SharePoint URL and pull the data in the form of a .json file. My URL looks like this: .../_api/web/lists/GetByTitle('titles list')/items If I give the URL as it is without ...
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I have read the man pages of Curl, but I can't understand what those parameters (k, i and X) mean. I see it used in a REST API call, but can someone please explain what those three parameters do? It's ...
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