I would like to find all shared memory segments used by a given process. I am especially interested in figuring out the shmid so i can use it in calls to shmctl(). On Solaris i would just read /proc/$...

I have seen a strange behavior with "strndup" call on AIX 5.3 and 6.1. If I call strndup with size more than the size of actual source string length, then there is a stack corruption after that call. ...

I m writting a Perl script for which I need the uptime in seconds to do some calculation, in all the machine in the shop (i.e. linux, SunOS, and AIX). I have a way to get the uptime for linux (/proc/...

How to find which dynamic libs .so are loaded currently by a process, also those dll are dynamically loaded with dllopen. I want to debug a process to find out which libs its using currently.

I need to monitor a system with AIX 5.3, but can t find a good source for the OIDs. Does anybody know the OIDs for CPU, Memory and Harddisk values?

Is there a faster way to remove a directory then simply submitting rm -r -f *directory* ? I am asking this because our daily cross-platform builds are really huge (e.g. 4GB per build). So the ...

SWIG compiles and install easily on AIX. Unfortunately, a simple SWIG hello world (which also compiles - but not so easily) crashes with Segmentation Fault or Illegal Instruction (depending on some ...

On AIX, I would run: ar -X32 -t libdb2.a and check for output to determine if there is a 32-bit object in the archive. Similarly with -X64 for checking for a 64-bit object. However, what about if ...