Wandering Thoughts archives

2022-12-23: Handling numbers in Vim when they have a dash in front of them
2022-12-10: Unix's special way of marking login shells goes back to V2 Unix (at least)
2022-11-25: A revealing Vim addressing mistake that I made today
2022-11-24: Unix's (technical) history is mostly old now
2022-11-23: Unix swap configuration used to be rather simple and brute force
2022-10-12: We are stuck with egrep and fgrep (unless you like beating people)
2022-10-09: Research Unix V7's (comparatively) long time gap from V6
2022-10-07: How old various Unix signals are
2022-09-05: The history of sending signals to Unix process groups
2022-09-04: Support for 'kill -SIGNAME ...' was added in 4BSD
2022-08-04: The odd return value of the original 4.2 BSD gethostbyname()
2022-08-03: Vim settings I'm using for editing YAML (with a sideline into Python)
2022-08-01: A brief history of looking up host addresses in Unix
2022-07-13: How Unix didn't used to support '#!', a brief history
2022-07-04: Why an empty (executable) file is generally true in Unix
2022-06-13: In general Unix system calls are not cancellable, just abortable
2022-06-12: Framebuffer consoles have been around before on Unix workstations
2022-05-21: Some things that make languages easy (or not) to embed in Unix shell scripts
2022-05-20: Getting a Bourne shell "here document" into a shell variable
2022-04-18: How to talk to a local IPMI under OpenBSD
2022-04-13: A reason why Unix programs sometimes support '-?' for help
2022-04-07: What goes into an X resource and its name
2022-04-05: The failure of the idea of X resources
2022-03-14: Where cut comes into Unix (and a bit on the history of awk)
2022-03-01: The problem of keeping track of hardlinks as you traverse a directory tree
2022-02-26: Unix environment variables (and the environment) are a fuzzy thing
2022-02-20: The history (sort of) of service management in Unix
2022-02-19: The important things about Unix init systems aren't booting the system
2022-01-29: The reason Unix has the argv[0] issue (and API)
2022-01-13: In practice, there are two types of window managers in modern X
2022-01-04: Some ways to implement /dev/fd in Unix kernels
2022-01-03: The important Unix idea of the "virtual filesystem switch"
2022-01-02: Why "process substitution" is a late feature in Unix shells

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