Wandering Thoughts archives

2012-12-31:	GNU `sort`'s `-h` option
2012-12-15:	A few small notes about OpenBSD PF (as of 4.4 and 5.1)
2012-12-12:	`fork()` and closing file descriptors
2012-12-02:	What goes into the terminal's 'cbreak' and 'raw' modes
2012-11-22:	A little Unix difference that irritates: what word erase erases
2012-11-10:	Why Unix doesn't have user-changeable namespaces
2012-10-21:	Why `fork()` is a good API
2012-10-19:	An old Unix trick for saving databases
2012-09-28:	`fork()` versus strict virtual memory overcommit handling
2012-09-07:	What the standard(s) say about the order of `readdir()`'s results
2012-08-31:	A small rant about looking down on Linux users
2012-08-15:	The historical background of the *BSD 'base system' versus Linux
2012-08-06:	The (possibly apocryphal) story of System V IPC's origins
2012-07-28:	The ecological niches of current open source Unixes
2012-07-09:	Why the defaults for tunable kernel parameters matter
2012-07-08:	Why System V shared memory may normally be limited
2012-07-03:	The well behaved Unix program and job control signals
2012-06-25:	Why sophisticated line editing is not in the kernel
2012-06-04:	Why the TTY line discipline exists in the kernel
2012-05-20:	The XFT font naming issue
2012-05-19:	A semi-brief history and overview of X fonts and font rendering technology
2012-04-21:	Bash's superintelligent errors about exec failures
2012-04-18:	Why you should never use `file` (or `libmagic`) to identify files
2012-03-26:	What it means to become another user on Unix
2012-03-21:	My view of where the Unix community is
2012-03-15:	Part of the cleverness of Unix permissions (a little thought)
2012-02-12:	Some things about changing from old X fonts to modern TrueType fonts Understanding FVWM States, with better FVWM code for selecting terminal windows
2012-02-11:	How I select (terminal) windows from the keyboard in FVWM
2012-02-03:	Understanding Resident Set Size and the RSS problem on modern Unixes
2012-01-15:	Understanding the basic shape of Unix virtual memory management
2012-01-14:	What do we mean when we talk about something's memory usage?

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