C is a general-purpose computer programming language used for operating systems, games and other high performance work and is clearly distinct from C++. It was developed in 1972 by Dennis Ritchie for use with the Unix operating system.

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Development environment for C

Looking for ideas on setting up a convenient and productive development environment for C development. I found C editing with Vim very helpful but I would like to get a wider sampling of suggestions.
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Is there a glibc API that can find the default handing application for a MIME type on linux?

I want to find the default handling application in my C program. Is there a C API with same functionality as xdg-mime query default mime-type on Linux?
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How do I kill all a user's processes using their UID

I want to kill all running processes of a particular user from either a shell script or native code on a linux system. Do I have to read the /proc directory and look for these? Any ideas? Is there a ...
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USB Driver Compilation Error

I'm currently trying to compile a Linux USB UART driver, which is provided here: http://www.exar.com/connectivity/uart-and-bridging-solutions/usb-uarts/xr21v1410 The driver consists of 2 header files ...
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Bash shell with problematic outcomes under Linux (C) [closed]

Following my previous post, I still have one annoying bug that won't leave . I wrote a simulator for the bash command under Linux. When I run my code in a single run, with the these commands: ls ...
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Why rsh not opens and reads PAM modules and limits.conf?

I am working on a project, that uses rsh utility for remote connection. But my project needs some extra features for that, so I add that features. Till now, all the things are going fine. But when I ...