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help2002

This forum is provided to promote discussion amongst students enrolled in CITS2002 Systems Programming.
Please consider offering answers and suggestions to help other students! And if you fix a problem by following a suggestion here, it would be great if other interested students could see a short "Great, fixed it!" followup message.

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UWA week 39 (2nd semester, week 9) ↓

2nd project -a and -r flags (all 7)

12:32pm Fri 29th Sep, James A.

The presence (or lack) of the -a option does not affect whether sub-directories are synced, only whether things starting with a '.' that would otherwise be synced, are instead ignored.

UWA week 35 (2nd semester, week 6) ↓

the unit in general had to restart pc, issues with ubuntu (all 3)

6:18am Fri 1st Sep, James A.

You may need to make sure the right Windows features are enabled to allow hosting virtual machines (which is how WSL2 functions underneath). In particular quoted from https www.sitepoint.com wsl2 It's likely these settings were restored to the defa...

UWA week 34 (2nd semester, week 5) ↓

Segmentation fault (core dumped) 👍x1 (all 5)

4:43am Wed 23rd Aug, James A.

It's also worth noting that memory-related bugs like the above are always incorrect, but don't necessarily cause a segmentation fault. They are examples of "undefined behaviour", which means the program is allowed to do anything (including crash, or ...

✅ Segmentation fault (core dumped) 👍x1 (all 5)

4:35am Wed 23rd Aug, James A.

This Stack Overflow is a fairly decent answer to the question "What is a segmentation fault?" https stackoverflow.com questions 2346806 what-is-a-segmentation-fault But, in short, a segmentation fault happens when your program tries to access memor...