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[nick]

On 2015-05-04 04:45 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Sun, 3 May 2015, Nicholas Krause wrote:
> 
>>
>>
>> On May 3, 2015 9:16:27 AM EDT, Ruben Safir <ruben at mrbrklyn.com> wrote:
>>> On 05/03/2015 08:47 AM, Nicholas Krause wrote:
>>>> remember there being information about this topic being in the Linux
>>> programming interface in chapters 26 through 28. Furthermore find a
>>> copy of this book as it's a rather good reference for when you need
>>> questions like this answered.
>>>
>>>
>>> which book?
> 
>>> The book is called the Linux programming interface and the chapters
>>> related to this question are chapters 26 or 27 I believe.
> 
>   nick, this is another reason your contributions to this forum (and
> pretty much every other one you're on) are so frequently valueless --
> you rarely give a complete or useful answer.
> 
>   i suspect the book you're referring to is michael kerrisk's "the
> linux programming interface", http://man7.org/tlpi/index.html (a book
> to which i have actually contributed corrections,
> http://man7.org/tlpi/errata/index.html), which is a reference you
> *could* have provided but, instead, you chose to leave just this
> maddeningly half-vague reference to a book and some chapter numbers.
> 
>   it's an annoying habit with you, nick -- someone asks a well-formed
> and specific question and, because you always want to be the first one
> to jump in with an answer to burnish your credentials, your reply is
> typically something like, "i think there's a system call that does
> what you want, you should look it up."
> 
>   your eagerness to leap in and be the first one to be helpful
> typically means your contributions are vague, vacuous, incomplete and,
> in some cases, simply wrong. but rather than take the time to
> research the question so that your response is actually *helpful*, you
> prefer to contribute little more than, "i think this thing might help
> what you're working on, you should check the man page."
> 
>   you're not doing your reputation any favours.
> 
> rday
>
Rday,
Yet everything I ask a question I get a similar response like do your homework or read more rather
then any help. Clearly I understand with my older questions why but all of my questions now are
similar in nature to this so there is no reason for that.
Nick