POSIX timer_create with SIGEV_THREAD

I'm having trouble to get the timers working. Compiling is no problem, but I get a runtime error when I run the code (Code=22, Invalid argument).
Here is the code for creating the timer:
void timeoutHandler(union sigval arg)
// do something with arg.sival_ptr which should point to a function
void createTimer()
struct se sigevent;
se.sigev_notify = SIGEV_THREAD;
se.sigev_signo = SIGRTMIN;
se.sigev_value.sival_ptr = a_function_ptr; // pointer to function that should be passed to the thread routine (timeoutHandler)
se.sigev_notify_function = timeoutHandler;
timer_create(CLOCK_REALTIME, &se, &handle);
Does anyone know how to make this work?
I'm running on a Sparc station, Solaris 8, gcc-2.95.3.
Regards
[email protected]

Hello-
I believe the problem is the following:
se.sigev_notify = SIGEV_THREAD;
Currently only the only two options for sigev_notify are SIGEV_SIGNAL and SIGEV_NONE. POSIX.4 documentation/books can provide the details for each option. Hope this helps.

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Thanks in advance and excuse my poor english skills!

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These two facts will help you out:
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--Gerrit

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{"_", "_"}, ¬
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Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
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bash-3.00# cd /export/home/kaja/BDB/dbxml-2.4.16
bash-3.00# ./buildall.sh -p solaris -c gcc -x g++ -m make prefix=/export/home/kaja/BDB/Install-2.4.16 enable-java with-dbxml=/export/home/kaja/BDB/dbxml-2.4.16/dbxml with-berkeleydb=/export/home/kaja/BDB/dbxml-2.4.16/db-4.6.21 with-xerces=/export/home/kaja/BDB/dbxml-2.4.16/xerces-c-src with-xqilla=/export/home/kaja/BDB/dbxml-2.4.16/xqilla
Is there anything I'm missing or I have gone wrong? Please help me. I want to build bdb-xml with Java support.
Thanks in advance,
With regards,
R Kaja Mohideen
Edited by: mail4kaja on Sep 1, 2010 8:07 PM - Modified Title to DBXML-2.5.16

Hi all,
I have tried using that -xarch=v9 in my build. But, that didn't help me. So, I just though of using the latest BDBXML hoping that it will support me.
I want to build BDBXML-2.5.16 that will be used my two applications (C++ & Java).
C++ Application will create environment, containers and put documents in the containers.
Java Application will read/query the document contents.
My machine details.
uname -a
SunOS ltesol1 5.10 Generic_137111-03 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-480R
cc -V
cc: Sun C 5.9 SunOS_sparc Patch 124867-09 2008/11/25
CC -V
CC: Sun C++ 5.9 SunOS_sparc Patch 124863-05 2008/06/03
make --version
GNU Make version 3.79.1, by Richard Stallman and Roland McGrath.
Built for sparc-sun-solaris2.9
Copyright (C) 1988, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 2000
Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
Report bugs to <[email protected]>.
Following are the commands I have used to trigger my BDBXML-2.5.16 build.
export CFLAGS="-I/usr/jdk/instances/jdk1.5.0/include -I/usr/jdk/instances/jdk1.5.0/include/solaris"
export CXXFLAGS="-library=stlport4 -library=Crun -I/usr/jdk/instances/jdk1.5.0/include -I/usr/jdk/instances/jdk1.5.0/include/solaris"
./buildall.sh prefix=/var/tmp/a22189/kaja/Install-2.5.16 -c cc -x CC enable-java with-dbxml=/var/tmp/a22189/kaja/dbxml-2.5.16/dbxml with-berkeleydb=/var/tmp/a22189/kaja/dbxml-2.5.16/db-4.8.26 with-berkeleydb-conf="enable-posixmutexes with-mutex=POSIX/pthreads" with-xerces=/var/tmp/a22189/kaja/dbxml-2.5.16/xerces-c-src --with-xqilla=/var/tmp/a22189/kaja/dbxml-2.5.16/xqilla
And, I'm getting the following xerces linking issue
Undefined first referenced
symbol in file
bool xercesc_3_0::DOMLSSerializerImpl::canSetParameter(const unsigned short*,bool)const .libs/XPath2NodeSerializer.o
bool xercesc_3_0::DOMLSSerializerImpl::canSetParameter(const unsigned short*,const void*)const .libs/XPath2NodeSerializer.o
void xercesc_3_0::DOMLSSerializerImpl::setParameter(const unsigned short*,bool) .libs/XPath2NodeSerializer.o
void xercesc_3_0::DOMLSSerializerImpl::setParameter(const unsigned short*,const void*) .libs/XPath2NodeSerializer.o
const void*xercesc_3_0::DOMLSSerializerImpl::getParameter(const unsigned short*)const .libs/XPath2NodeSerializer.o
ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to .libs/libxqilla.so.5.0.2
make[1]: *** [libxqilla.la] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/a22189/kaja/dbxml-2.5.16/xqilla/build'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
Please help me resolve this build issue.
Thanks & regards,
R Kaja Mohideen

Finder + ACLs over AFP Mounted Remote Volume

Hey Guys!
My Finder is not able to display ACLs on files coming from an AFP mounted volume. The ACLs are there -- ``ls -lef'' displays them correctly. If there some obvious thing here that I'm missing?
regards,
P

Yes, sort of. Whenever you're doing an "opportunistic mount" where the server and client are not joined to the same directory domain, permissions masking will take place. When masking is in effect, it maps access from the currently logged-in user (session owner) on the client to the server share point based on the name and password entered after choosing Go > Connect to Server.
When dealing with masked permissions, this will be the case:
* On the client-side, the Finder Info windows may or may not correctly show all ACLs and POSIX permissions of items on the share point. They may simply display effective access - e.g. "you can only read" - without further detail. This depends on the protocol. Typically AFP share points will show correct server-side ACLs and POSIX permissions.
* On the client-side, listing (ls) the contents of the share point via Terminal will indicate that the session owner has full control and is the "POSIX owner" with others' access at zero (0700). These are the masked permissions, not the real ones.
* On the server, permissions listed via ls in Terminal or Server Admin's File Sharing section will be the correct ones.
--Gerrit

ACL Tips version 2

The following is a more concise version of my ACL tips post, with some relevant and updated answers for 10.4.4.
Before You Begin: I recommend starting with Mac OS X Server 10.4.3 minimum. Some quirkiness in the ACL model exists in earlier versions of Mac OS X Server 10.4. Also, be sure to check all of your volumes with Disk Utility's Repair function before proceeding. ACL information is stored in the Extended Attributes file, and damage to that file can cause confusion when setting or changing permissions.
The Tiger Permissions Model: Mac OS X Server version 10.4 supports standard UNIX (POSIX) permissions and Access Control Lists (ACLs). ACLs offer some options previously unavailable in earlier versions of the server software, and can be used to define permissions for newly created files and folders. You don't have to use ACLs, though: When disabled, the permissions model simply relies on POSIX permissions, just as with Mac OS X Server 10.3 and earlier. When ACLs are enabled, Mac OS X Server considers ACL information and POSIX information. This consideration process returns the Effective Permissions for a particular file or folder (filesystem object).
The ACL model Apple uses is identical to the model used by Microsoft Windows; however, there is no "ACL only" option that will ignore POSIX permissions. You either have POSIX only (with ACLs disabled), or both (Effective Permissions).
ACLs are enabled on a per-volume basis. You can do so in the Sharing section of Workgroup Manager by clicking the All tab and navigating to an HFS+ volume in the list. Or, you can do so from the command line with fsaclctl.
Effective Permissions: When ACLs are enabled, the Effective Permissions are calculated in the following way:
(relevant POSIX permissions) union (relevant ACL Allow entries) take away (relevant ACL Deny entries)
This means that applicable POSIX permissions (either owner, group, or POSIX everyone) and applicable ACL Allow entries are combined to grant the connecting user access to the filesystem object. If no ACL Deny entries apply to the connecting user, then the Effective Permissions for the user accessing the filesystem object are simply the union of applicable POSIX and ACL Allow entries. If an ACL Deny entry applies to the connecting user, then that level of access is not granted for the filesystem object.
In this way, the ACL Deny entry has the most power. When specified, it overrides any ACL Allow rule or POSIX permission bit.
Applicable POSIX Permissions: The POSIX permissions for a connecting user accessing a filesystem object are determined using the following method. Remember, POSIX permissions are applicable when ACLs are disabled and when they are enabled (as part of the Effective Permissions model).
POSIX permissions consist of three "fields": an owner which must be assigned to a user, a group, and an everyone else category. Sometimes each category is referred to as a POSIX permission bit, and the everyone else field may be referred to as "world," since those are the permissions assigned to any user who cannot be categorized as the filesystem object's owner or group member.
Each POSIX permission field can have zero, one, two, or three of three bits enabled, which determine eight different levels of access: read, write, and execute (for files, launch/open; for folders, view contents). Each is called a bit because together they represent a three-bit number ranging from 0 (binary 000) to 7 (binary 111), where read=4 (binary 100), write=2 (binary 010), and execute=1 (binary 001). As you can see, this allows eight different combinations for eight different access levels:
No access = 0 (000)
Execute only = 1 (001)
Write only = 2 (010)
Write & Execute (Drop Box) = 3 (011)
Read only = 4 (100)
Read & Execute =5 (101)
Read & Write = 6 (110)
Read, Write, and Execute = 7 (111)
If the connecting user is the filesystem object's owner, then he/she receives the POSIX permissions assigned to the owner of the filesystem object. If and only if that fails, then Mac OS X checks to see if the connecting user should be assigned the POSIX permissions assigned to the filesystem object's group. (First it checks to see if the connecting user's primary group matches that of the group assigned to the filesystem object; if there's no match, then it looks up the filesystem object's group to see if the connecting user is a member.) If and only if the group assignment fails, then the connecting user is assigned the POSIX permissions of the everyone else category. If all fail, then no access is returned.
In this way, the POSIX permissions are either those assigned to the owner, group, or everyone else category; if more than one is true for the connecting user, then the first item that is true determines the POSIX permissions returned. In other words, owner overrides group, and group overrides everyone else.
Everyone else doesn't necessarily mean guest. In fact, guest access is only available if it has been enabled for the AFP or SMB services using Server Admin. Often guests do receive the permissions assigned to the everyone else group, unless you use the group named "everyone" (GID 12) in the POSIX group field when assigning it to a filesystem object. Since this is redundant, the "everyone" group is more useful with ACLs.
Setting POSIX Permissions and New File & Folder Behavior: Each filesystem object has three (normally) or four (for special modes) POSIX permission fields attached to it. The permissions for owner, group, and everyone else are often abbreviated using the decimal form of each permission. For example, 773, means owner can read, write, and execute (7), group can do the same, and everyone else can read and execute (drop box) only. An owner name and group name are attached to the filesystem object by the UID and GID of each.
Normally, the POSIX model always applies a default set of permissions calculated by using the umask to newly created files and folders. This is called "standard POSIX behavior" or "standard UNIX behavior". By default the umask is 0022, which means that newly created files receive permissions of 755. The only thing that changes are the owner and group permission field names. The owner is set to the user who created (or duplicated or copied) the file or folder, and the group is set to that user's primary group (which is staff for most users).
You can change the way that the POSIX model applies permissions to newly created files and folders:
* You can set the set-UID or set-GID bits to define a specific owner or group for newly created files. (See man chmod for details.)
* When ACLs are disabled, you can enable the "Inherit Permissions" access option. In this case, the permission fields and bits are inherited from their enclosing folder. This option is disabled with ACLs, because ACLs provide a more robust model for permission inheritance.
continued

The chmod commands you shared set the ACL for read-write, correct? Correct. The command listed in the last post will apply read & write controls for the gsc group, adding file and folder inheritance to any newly-created enclosed objects. To set full control, you simply need to add two more controls to the list: chown and writesecurity:
sudo chmod +a "gsc allow readsecurity,readattr,readextattr,list,serch,read,execute,writeextattr,writeatt r,delete,deletechild,add_file,add_subdirectory,write,append,file_inherit,directoryinherit,chown,writesecurity" /Volumes/Data/Shared
The major difference between all read and write controls and the full control set of controls is that full control would enable your gsc group to dynamically change permissions for any files onto which its ACL entry allows it, along with the ability to change the file's POSIX owner (which is less important, unless you want to change the user who originally created/copied the file in/to the folder).
Also, if I give 2 users "full-control" as defined by an ACE for a shared folder, and one of the users creates a file within the shared folder, does the fact that they have "full-control" mean that any files they create will have the default umask and that the other user wouldn't be able to open it, even though they too have "full-control"?
As long as both users have full control to the file or folder in question, it doesn't matter what POSIX permissions are returned. The POSIX owner, group, and permissions don't have to be set such that one is the owner. Remember that Effective permissions take POSIX permissions and ACLs into consideration. In fact, POSIX access could be set to 000, returning no access, so long as an ACL for full control is present (and no ACL deny rules apply), the user or group would have full control.
New files created in a folder will still have their owners set to the creating user, their groups set to the creator's primary group, and their permissions set as per the umask (resulting in 755 by default). However, these are all POSIX permission model items, and that's just 1/3 of the Effective Permissions picture. If the enclosing folder has an ACL entry with inheritance that grants a specific user or group access, then that ACL will be inherited to the newly-created file, regardless of who creates it.
Let's say that /Volumes/Data/Shared has the full control ACL for gsc set with inheritance as specified in my last command. Let's say that Sally and Bob are members of the gsc group. Both have their primary groups set to Users (staff), which is the default.
Bob then creates a new file in (or copies a new file into) /Volumes/Data/Shared: "bob-file.txt" The permissions for /Volumes/Data/Shared/bob-file.txt will show the following: owner: Bob, group: staff, POSIX permissions: 755, ACL for gsc allows full control for that group. Thus, Sally has full control for bob-file.txt, even though she isn't the file's owner.
However, if you've omitted the file_inherit (or directory_inherit) control for the /Volumes/Data/Shared folder, the situation changes. Any file that Bob creates will not have an ACL entry inherited. Thus, even though both Bob and Sally have full control (as granted by the ACL entry for the gsc group) for the /Volumes/Data/Shared folder, the file bob-file.txt will be read-only for Sally. (Sally can still duplicate or delete it since she has full control for its parent folder, but she cannot simply double-click it and modify it. Read/write control would grant her that ability, too.)
The ability to change permissions and ownership comes with full control. This operates independently from inheritance, and I recommend using full control with caution, as each user with that ability can modify permissions from their default inherited ACL entries, potentially taking away permissions for other users. Full control for a folder allows the user/group to be an "administrator" for that folder.
--Gerrit

Strange file permissions, I am being asked to authenticate when i own file

I cannot delete or move a file owned by me with read write permissions without entering password. Could anybody help me figure out why? I have verified and repaired permissions on my disk, file is owned by me in group staff, perms set to 644 and located in my home directory. I could easily enter my password but im curious why this file wont do as its told, any help would be grateful.

If you didn't want to fix your problem, why'd you ask?
There is more to permissions than the posix ones you see in Get Info. There are other restrictions in the form of ACLs which cause all sorts of problems if they get assigned where not needed.
You can view the ACLs along with the Posix permissions with this command:
ls -ale ~/
That will display everything in your home folder.
It sounds as though something is either denying your ability to delete from that folder, or the destination folder is preventing you from writing.

Partition Failed Partition failed with the error: POSIX reports: The operation couldn't be completed. CAN NOT ALLOCATE MEMORY

I plug usb mass storage device to my macbook pro i7 than every thing is stack and i reinforce to shutdown and than I start again but mac fail to boot again.
I tried different optiones in disk utility in mac os startup disk. but still fail to repair, erase and partition. I try to fix with the steps listed in
https://discussions.apple.com/message/13288923#13288923
but it fail to partition with the msg:
Partition Failed
Partition failed with the error: POSIX reports: The operation couldn’t be completed.cannot allocate memory
pls pls pls help urgentely on this matter I stop working.
Kind Regards,
pe

Hi again OGELTHORPE.
I've already run two hardware tests. One quick one and one extended one. It was unable to pick anything up.
It's like everything is running perfectly, but when I go to erase the HDD or partition it, it pops up with the error message. Even when I try to erase and partition using "Terminal", I received the same error message.
It's beginning to do my head in, but will see if replacing the SATA cable will make any difference. If it doesn't, I'll hazard a guess it could be the Logic Board.
Thanks again for your suggestions!
L.

Any help with picking POSIX file to display

So I ran this script to read out a text file
set examplefile to {}
set linesf to paragraphs of (read POSIX file (choose file))
repeat with nextline in linesf
          if length of nextline > 0 then
                    copy nextline to the end of linesf
          end if
end repeat
set textfileread to result
display alert textfileread
But I get this error
error "Can’t make POSIX file (alias \"Macintosh HD:Users:Stephen:Desktop:encrypt.txt\") into type file." number -1700 from POSIX file (alias "Macintosh HD:Users:Stephen:Desktop:encrypt.txt") to file
Any Ideas on how I can fix this problem?

Use:
set linesf to paragraphs of (read (choose file))
You don't need to get the POSIX path of something if you're not going to use it in a do shell script command.
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I get the following error when formatting a external hard drive. Partition failed with the error: POSIX reports: The operation couldn't be completed. Cannot allocate memory

I get the following error when formatting a external hard drive.
Partition failed with the error:
POSIX reports: The operation couldn’t be completed. Cannot allocate memory
I have a Macbook pro 13" A1278. I purchased it around december 2010. I have a HHD 3.5" drive desktop select II 1.5TB. I purchased it around Febuary/March 2011 to use with my Macbook pro. I formatted it and moved all my files to there, I got it so my macbook's hard drive wouldn't brake and I lose everything on my macbook.
Is there any fixes?

First, try a system reset. It cures many ills and it's quick, easy and harmless...
Hold down the on/off switch and the Home button simultaneously until the screen blacks out or you see the Apple logo. Ignore the "Slide to power off" text if it appears. You will not lose any apps, data, music, movies, settings, etc.
If the Reset doesn't work, try a Restore. Note that it's nowhere near as quick as a Reset. From iTunes, select the iPad/iPod and then select the Summary tab. Follow directions for Restore and be sure to say "yes" to the backup. You will be warned that all data (apps, music, movies, etc.) will be erased but, as the Restore finishes, you will be asked if you wish the contents of the backup to be copied to the iPad/iPod. Again, say "yes."

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