Wandering Thoughts archives

2014-12-16:	Does having a separate daemon manager help system resilience?
2014-12-14:	How init wound up as Unix's daemon manager
2014-11-18:	Finding free numbers in a range, crudely, with Unix tools
2014-11-09:	NFS hard mounts versus soft mounts
2014-11-05:	(Probably) Why Bash imports functions from the environment
2014-10-29:	Unnoticed nonportability in Bourne shell code (and elsewhere)
2014-10-07:	Why blocking writes are a good Unix API (on pipes and elsewhere)
2014-10-06:	Why it's sensible for large writes to pipes to block
2014-09-19:	What I mean by passive versus active init systems
2014-09-10:	Does init actually need to do daemon supervision?
2014-09-08:	What an init system needs to do in the abstract
2014-09-05:	Some uses for `SIGSTOP` and some cautions
2014-08-27:	The difference between Linux and FreeBSD boosters for me
2014-08-15:	A consequence of NFS locking and unlocking not necessarily being fast
2014-07-30:	My view on FreeBSD versus Linux, primarily on the desktop
2014-07-28:	FreeBSD, cultural bad blood, and me
2014-07-25:	An interesting picky difference between Bourne shells
2014-07-01:	An index of non-letter control characters
2014-06-12:	An init system has two jobs
2014-06-08:	The fundamental problem that created `su`
2014-06-02:	Vi's composability antecedent (or one of them)
2014-05-29:	The state of limits on how many groups you can be in (especially for NFS)
2014-05-13:	The security model of `sudo` versus `su`
2014-04-25:	A Unix semantics issue if your filesystem can snapshot arbitrary directories
2014-04-19:	Cross-system NFS locking and unlocking is not necessarily fast
2014-04-17:	Partly getting around NFS's concurrent write problem
2014-03-17:	Rebooting the system if init dies is a hack
2014-03-16:	You don't have to reboot the system if init dies
2014-02-14:	The good and bad of the System V init system
2014-02-13:	Init's (historical) roles
2014-01-29:	One cause of Linux's popularity among Unixes
2014-01-25:	The origin of RCS (the version control system)

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