Wandering Thoughts archives

2007-12-24:	The difference between shells that do job control and shells that don't
2007-12-19:	Why setuid scripts are fundamentally a bad idea
2007-12-17:	What is a script language on Unix
2007-11-13:	Why `vfork()` got created (part 2)
2007-11-11:	Why `vfork()` got created (part 1)
2007-11-07:	Understanding the virtual memory overcommit issue
2007-10-11:	A gotcha with command order in pipes
2007-10-09:	A silly trick with X
2007-10-02:	A gotcha with 'bidirectional' pipes to commands
2007-09-26:	Thinking about why Apache waits for CGIs to close standard output
2007-09-17:	How `mmap(2)` requires a unified buffer cache
2007-08-09:	A gotcha with the format of `dump` archives
2007-08-03:	The scope of shell history
2007-07-20:	The downside of a unified buffer cache
2007-07-02:	What the unified buffer cache is unifying
2007-06-13:	What NFS file-based locking problems can happen
2007-06-12:	'Argument list too long' is a misleading message
2007-06-10:	How NFS is unreliable for file-based locking
2007-05-13:	Unix folklore: your swap should be twice your RAM
2007-05-04:	A little twitch I have in X Windows
2007-04-25:	What do Unix errno values mean?
2007-04-23:	Extra security systems for Unix should be explicit, not implicit
2007-03-25:	Fitts' Law and edge-flipping in window managers
2007-03-18:	Why Unix setuid is incompatible with real network filesystems
2007-02-11:	How to do locking in shell scripts
2007-02-09:	What System V did to the poor `ln` command
2007-01-14:	An alarming reflex in my use of `find`
2007-01-11:	An interesting Bourne shell limitation
2007-01-10:	A gotcha with `inetd`/`xinetd` and popular UDP services

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