Wandering Thoughts archives

2009-12-20:	Some things about getting useful output from `time`
2009-12-04:	Learning from Unicorn: the `accept()` thundering herd non-problem
2009-11-25:	Why I love Unix, number N (for some N)
2009-11-05:	Why the NFS client is at fault in the multi-filesystem NFS problem
2009-11-04:	The cause of the multi-filesystem NFS export problem
2009-10-04:	Why Unix filesystems precreate `lost+found` directories
2009-10-01:	The rules for combining things with Bourne shell 'here documents'
2009-09-06:	What typing ^D really does on Unix
2009-09-05:	Why the Unix `EINTR` semantics (probably) exist
2009-09-02:	Environment variables make bad switches
2009-08-11:	The somewhat apocryphal history of comments in the Bourne shell
2009-08-10:	The difference in the Bourne shell between `:` and `#`
2009-08-02:	What you can't do before you drop setuid permissions
2009-07-29:	The shift-selection trick in X terminal programs
2009-07-13:	Some stuff on NFS access restrictions
2009-07-12:	A brief history of NFS server access restrictions
2009-07-09:	The high-level version of how mounting NFS filesystems works
2009-07-02:	Finding out when a command in a pipeline fails
2009-06-30:	A Unix irritation: pipeline status
2009-06-17:	The NFS 'reserved ports' option and why you care
2009-06-02:	Sometimes brute force is the answer (on Unix)
2009-05-17:	One reason for Unix's permission checking timing
2009-05-03:	An inexplicable omission in bash's sourcing of `.bashrc`
2009-04-26:	A Bourne shell irritation: piping just stderr
2009-04-03:	The (or a) problem with Unix manpages How to use Vixie cron to schedule at regular odd times
2009-03-26:	An important difference
2009-03-14:	Why I don't trust `seteuid()` and friends
2009-03-12:	The not so secret history of `/var`
2009-02-12:	Recognizing non-interactive shells and 'shell levels'
2009-02-08:	When bash sources your `.bashrc`
2009-01-22:	The NFS re-export problem
2009-01-20:	Why high availability NFS requires shared storage The inner life of NFS filehandles
2009-01-09:	A Unix shell glob trick

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