Comments for Dennis Kanbier's Blog http://dennis.kanbier.net Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:50:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 Comment on Using MDAC and IE on Linux by dennis http://dennis.kanbier.net/2008/09/using-mdac-and-ie-on-linux/#comment-17 dennis Sat, 27 Dec 2008 23:50:55 +0000 http://www.kanbier.net/?p=6#comment-17 What version of IE did you install using IEs4Linux? Can you start that version using a terminal window by typing "ieX" where X is the version number of IE you installed? What version of IE did you install using IEs4Linux? Can you start that version using a terminal window by typing “ieX” where X is the version number of IE you installed?

]]> Comment on Using MDAC and IE on Linux by Jan http://dennis.kanbier.net/2008/09/using-mdac-and-ie-on-linux/#comment-16 Jan Tue, 23 Dec 2008 08:39:40 +0000 http://www.kanbier.net/?p=6#comment-16 Doesn't work for me, unfortunately. Running Debian (2.6.18 kernel). After the IEs4Linux install, IE starts fine. After installing MDAC 2.7 SP1 as described in your guide, IE doesn't start anymore by using the desktop shortcut. Launching "wine iexplore" prompts me with the Wine Gecko installer, which didn't seem necessary before the mdac install. After installing the Gecko engine, IE still won't launch properly, it just displays an empty (white) window. Doesn’t work for me, unfortunately.

Running Debian (2.6.18 kernel). After the IEs4Linux install, IE starts fine. After installing MDAC 2.7 SP1 as described in your guide, IE doesn’t start anymore by using the desktop shortcut. Launching “wine iexplore” prompts me with the Wine Gecko installer, which didn’t seem necessary before the mdac install. After installing the Gecko engine, IE still won’t launch properly, it just displays an empty (white) window.

]]> Comment on Sneaky processes on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 by alcachi http://dennis.kanbier.net/2008/09/sneaky-processes-on-red-hat-enterprise-linux-3/#comment-9 alcachi Sun, 07 Dec 2008 22:06:57 +0000 http://www.kanbier.net/?p=99#comment-9 I was facing the same doubt and your post has been very useful. Doing some tests with a simple C program where I create two threads with pthread_create I have seen that the threads themselves and the main program see the same PID (the one corresponding to the main program). Interestingly enough top shows 3 different PIDs (one for the main program and 2 for the new threads with consecutive numbers). These PIDs are not seen with ps but they are somehow reserved because no other process has them. Finally even if ps does not show this PIDs it is possible to send a SIGKILL signal with kill to this "ghost" PIDs and the whole task (main program and the threads) are killed. Now I am just wondering what are the reasons behind this behavior and have tried to find more information about NPTL but no much info is available (at least I could not find it). I was facing the same doubt and your post has been very useful.

Doing some tests with a simple C program where I create two threads with pthread_create I have seen that the threads themselves and the main program see the same PID (the one corresponding to the main program). Interestingly enough top shows 3 different PIDs (one for the main program and 2 for the new threads with consecutive numbers). These PIDs are not seen with ps but they are somehow reserved because no other process has them.

Finally even if ps does not show this PIDs it is possible to send a SIGKILL signal with kill to this “ghost” PIDs and the whole task (main program and the threads) are killed.

Now I am just wondering what are the reasons behind this behavior and have tried to find more information about NPTL but no much info is available (at least I could not find it).

]]> Comment on Using MDAC and IE on Linux by Robert http://dennis.kanbier.net/2008/09/using-mdac-and-ie-on-linux/#comment-2 Robert Thu, 09 Oct 2008 06:06:37 +0000 http://www.kanbier.net/?p=6#comment-2 Dude, this is awesome.. thanks! Dude, this is awesome.. thanks!

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