2of1

half a nibble of another

UPDATE: See comments

Linux purists are going to go crazy at this, but I was looking for a way to write to the kernel ring buffer (read by dmesg) from a userspace script.
I’m not going to debate the ‘whys’ – but in short I like having my sys logs for automated system actions (some which are userspace-launched) in one neat place.
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Some fantastic news to report!

Remember this issue?

Well, today I received an email from Mark Lawrence at Microsoft in regard to the issue of using the Windows SDK headers in FOSS.

Here’s an excerpt of the relevant bit:

"Creating a derivative of the d2d1.h header file would be a problem,
but merely looking at it for referential purposes in order to develop 
your own header and software for the Windows platform should be 
within the scope of the SDK license."

So it seems we have the go-ahead for ‘peeking’ in the original headers and using them as a base reference for our own!