Wandering Thoughts archives

2024-11-07:	Complications in supporting 'append to a file' in a NFS server
2024-11-06:	Losing NFS locks and the SunOS SIGLOST signal
2024-11-03:	The history of Unix's ioctl and signal about window sizes
2024-11-01:	Notes on the compatibility of crypted passwords across Unixes in late 2024
2024-10-23:	Doing basic policy based routing on FreeBSD with PF rules
2024-10-09:	The history of inetd is more interesting than I expected
2024-10-08:	OpenBSD kernel messages about memory conflicts on x86 machines
2024-10-05:	Daemonization in Unix programs is probably about restarting programs
2024-10-04:	Traditionally, init on Unix was not a service manager as such
2024-10-03:	(Unix) daemonization turns out to be quite old
2024-09-22:	Old (Unix) workstations and servers tended to boot in the same ways
2024-09-19:	OpenBSD versus FreeBSD pf.conf syntax for address translation rules
2024-08-25:	How to talk to a local IPMI under FreeBSD 14
2024-08-21:	What a POSIX shell has to do with $PWD
2024-08-16:	FreeBSD's 'root on ZFS' default appeals to me for an odd reason
2024-08-06:	Host names in syslog messages may not be quite what you expect
2024-07-26:	The uncertain possible futures of Unix graphical desktops
2024-07-23:	Seeing and matching pf rules when using tcpdump on OpenBSD's pflog interface
2024-06-10:	The NFS server 'subtree' export problem
2024-06-05:	Maybe understanding uname(1)'s platform and machine fields
2024-06-04:	Some history and limitations of uname(1) fields
2024-05-15:	Turning off the X server's CapsLock modifier
2024-05-14:	The X Window System and the curse of NumLock
2024-04-25:	The importance of an ordinary space in a Unix shell command line
2024-04-20:	What the original 4.2 BSD csh hashed (which is not what I thought)
2024-04-09:	Bash's sadly flawed smart (programmable) completion
2024-03-05:	A peculiarity of the X Window System: Windows all the way down
2024-03-04:	An illustration of how much X cares about memory usage
2024-03-03:	X graphics rendering as contrasted to Wayland rendering
2024-02-15:	(Some) X window managers deliberately use off-screen windows
2024-02-08:	Accidentally making windows vanish in my old-fashioned Unix X environment
2024-01-11:	An old Unix mistake you could make when signaling `init` (PID 1)
2024-01-02:	Why Unix's `lseek()` has that name instead of '`seek()`'

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