Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 23:56:11 +0100 From: Frank Shute <frank@shute.org.uk> To: "Christopher J. Ruwe" <cjr@cruwe.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: trying to learn systems programming, fear I have not understood and thus messed up Message-ID: <20111022225611.GA36172@orange.esperance-linux.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20111021185333.7c197a2a@dijkstra> References: <20111021185333.7c197a2a@dijkstra>
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--OXfL5xGRrasGEqWY Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 06:53:33PM +0200, Christopher J. Ruwe wrote: > > To improve on my C and to learn something about systems programming, I > have begun to pick out "bite-size bits" from the bin-PRs. Currently, I > am dispairing about bin/149972, which is about 1) adding error handling > to pw being invoced "pw -u <username>" and 2) trying to get a uid from > the (incorrectly) passed username. Currently, I cannot accomplish want > I wanted to do, so I turn here for hints or help. >=20 [snip] Christopher, you're probably best off posting to hackers@ for programming problems pertaining to FreeBSD. Regards, --=20 Frank Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html --OXfL5xGRrasGEqWY Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk6jSgoACgkQHduKvUAgeK43EwCgvhB2yuwmrY3F9T5EOwk06SfA tWoAnia6ywew2iJuNLaoG9G95pG42zth =//pV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --OXfL5xGRrasGEqWY--
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