the arc of software bends towards understanding
A while ago, I wrote a post describing how unsafe FFI calls could block your entire system, and gave the following example of this behavior: /* cbit.c */ #include <stdio.h> int bottom(int a) { while (1) {printf("%d\n", a);sleep(1);} return a; } /* cbit.h */ int bottom(int a); /* UnsafeFFITest.hs */ {-# LANGUAGE ForeignFunctionInterface #-} import […]
I finally got around to upgrading to Utopic. A year ago I reported that gnome-settings-daemon no longer provided keygrabbing support. This was eventually reverted for Trusty, which kept everyone's media keys. I'm sorry to report that in Ubuntu Utopic, the legacy keygrabber is no more: ------------------------------------------------------------ revno: 4015 [merge] author: William Hua <william.hua@canonical.com> committer: Tarmac […]