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programming in non-page-faults
Ok, I have done a #include <sys/mman.h> and I did a mlockall(MCL_CURRENT | MCL_FUTURE ) to ensure that this process's current and future(stack, etc) memory is protected from page faulting. This process does a pipe to make sure it is the only version running, then does a fork() to detach from... -
programming in non-page-faults
I just heard about something called mlock() if anyone has used this before. Tony -
programming in non-page-faults
For some software I'm working on, I need to make sure it doesn't slow down at any time, and taking out the ability of the system to put the program threads to disk and later page fault and reload them would make it possibly too slow. This is a real-time system so this is something I must do... -
ftp using c
I agree. The only two ways I can think of is to either write a script to deal with the logon name/password part, or create a pipe and run through it(works like system call) so you can login in that way. I think running an external cgi script is the easiest way to go. Tony -
popen and thread intereference
Finally figured it out. All I had to do was fork() the process to detach it from the terminal. Works like a charm now :) Tony
