Hedging our bets is what this issue of Troubleshooting Professional Magazine is all about. In this case the semaphore clean up code simply discards the sem_undo data structure. Commands run as a result of command substitu- tion ignore the keyboard-generated job control signals SIGTTIN, SIGTTOU, and SIGTSTP. All system times …

We who are enthusiastic about GNU/Linux want to spread that freedom around. However, this is no less "programming" than anything else. Recently, Linux has replaced this security system with a more general capabilities system. Because it is free software, licensed under the GNU General Public License, Linux obviates the …

It is less expensive to acquire. Many OSes don't provide uptime information and thus can't be included; this includes AIX, AS/400, Compaq Tru64, DG/UX, MacOS, NetWare, NT3/Windows 95, NT4/Windows 98, OS/2, OS/390, SCO UNIX, Sony NEWS-OS, SunOS 4, and VM. It'll need a lot …

Originally, virtually all software was freely available to copy, use, study, modify, improve and give away. But, as we all know, there are typically many directories on a system. Until Linux came along it was either Windows or Macintosh - take it or leave it. The IP protocol layer itself uses …

bash allows the current readline key bindings to be displayed or modified with the bind built-in command. Libraries were written and ported, filesystems developed, and hardware drivers written for many popular devices. Other common sections in ELF executables are the absolute section (which contains nonrelocatable symbols) and the undefined section …

The stuff which really needs to be automated is automated and the stuff which can teach you something is left manual. Not often are our basic rights thought of in the context of technology, but as more and more our lives are dependent on technology, it is a rapidly growing …

When I have unmounted the VFAT partition the system detects that I no longer need the VFAT file system module and removes it from the system. If you can use a computer or other electronic device, you can use Linux. The fact that open source code offers complete transparency acts …

Sometimes the DMA channel for a device can be set by jumpers; a number of ethernet devices use this technique. The control bus contains various lines used to route timing and control signals throughout the system. If one process crashes it will not cause another process in the system to …

Moreover, most programming languages (if they aren't limited to a particular OS) work on Linux. Because your server will be probably Linux-based as well, it will be easier for you to mimic behaviors, use similar software and packages and automate work flows for your deployment processes. You can easily see …

The term “emotional support animal” is in the news at present, mainly, sadly, because of its predictable abuse. In Japan, companion animals are petto or aigando butsu, animals to love, or play with, or take pleasure in, which just about covers it all. The next time you greet your own …

To kill rhinos, Mozambican poachers appear to prefer hunting rifles over other firearms available to them. There is evidence that Czech CZ 550 bolt-action rifles have become more popular with poachers in recent years. While obtaining a rifle through official channels in Mozambique can take up to six months, there …

While Colombia is a special case in some ways because of its long history of conflict, extractive industry activities in less extreme settings are increasingly marked by the presence of private, corporate security. The result is a variety of collaborative partnerships between public and private, formal and informal types of …

Its entries are also device_struct data structures. Over the years, Unix systems have supported a handful of different special files. This must happen as the module cannot expect to be loaded at the same address twice let alone into the same address in two different Linux systems. Most open source …

As a result, most desktop and server Linux systems that run antivirus and anti-malware software today do so because they host files that may be shared with Win- dows computers. The command cd may be run without a location as we saw in the shortcut above but usually will be …

The API merely defines the interface; the piece of software that actually provides the API is known as the implementation of the API. Most recently, the U.S. Before I became involved in Free Software, I had far different opinions, ideas, and beliefs than I do today. This highly stable …

Institutions that rely solely on commercial-proprietary vendors - whether on-premises or cloud-based - effectively outsource their IT strategy and reduce their capability to deal with change with agility. The exact wording of a recipe as it is written by its author is protected under copyright law, but the information itself (i.e …

Linux is made up of a number of functionally separate pieces that, together, comprise the operating system. What is the system-level interface, and how do I write system-level applications in Linux? Windows implementation is very high-level. Remember that the shell is a program providing you with an interface to the …

Linux provides any tools you need as a developer to operate a scalable, secure servers. When Corporations are happy with the used software they donate money to the communities in order to be able to continue their work and developing new versions. Instead, it focuses on user-space system-level programming, that …

For example, we can have a container which is a database program. The instructions executed by the processor are very simple; for example ``read the contents of memory at location X into register Y'. After being compiled into machine language, all programs look the same to the computer operating system …

Consequently, it can be said that this book is a book on Linux programming in general. Almost certainly, but it's doubtful that it would maintain the presence that Android currently enjoys in today's consumer market. However, Unix is not free. This is used by gateways, which respond to ARP requests …

To help bring order to chaos, standards groups codify system interfaces into official standards. The number of bytes that the device driver requests is rounded up to the next block size boundary. To those who believe that even bad attention is better than no attention, being treated as a non-entity …

When you boot a system that uses the GRUB Legacy bootloader, you'll see a menu that shows the boot options that you defined in the configuration file. In a very real sense Linux is a product of the Internet or World Wide Web (WWW). Device drivers have to be careful …

Its purpose is to provide a financial incentive for producing such works in order to benefit society as a whole. How does the kernel know which directory to look in to find a given filename? Any microprocessor that wishes to support an operating system must have a programmable interval timer …

For example, a process may have to wait for a character to be read from a file. Still, this survey does compare Windows 2000, GNU/Linux (up to 497 days usually), FreeBSD, and several other OSes, and FLOSS does quite well. The Base Image is an initial image which contains …

Once the parent process has waited on its terminated child, the child is fully destroyed. That is, there are no legal restrictions on anyone using, studying, copying, modifying, improving or publishing any recipe. Each time a device driver runs, maybe as an interrupt is received or as a bottom half …

For instance, containers have largely evolved through community involvement. There are three types of partition supported by fdisk, primary, extended and logical. Any of the bytes within a file may be read from or written to. The answer is that you can use any method you like to refer to …

You can code one version of your software and give it away freely, yet still maintain a commercial version with enhanced features. This tutorial is organised as such, with each section building upon the knowledge and skills learned in the previous sections. Dynamically loading code as it is needed is …

Disk drives provide a more permanent method for storing data, keeping it on spinning disk platters. By contrast, most software carries fine print that denies users these basic rights, leaving them susceptible to the whims of its owners and vulnerable to surveillance. The majority of those working on Free Software …

Recently DBMS Superpower Sybase made their Adaptive Server Enterprise technology available on the Linux platform. The takeover of software by corporations continued at a rapid pace, and free software was becoming an endangered species. When a user logs in, the login program checks the username and password, and then starts …

As Fedora is backed by Red Hat, you can expect it to work without issues while development process. Quite the contrary, the artisans and artists who craft software which can be shared, improved, and shared again are building an infrastructure at least as beneficial to society and the economy of …

This, in turn, allows for the use of the pathnames with which all Unix users are familiar-for example, /home/blackbeard/concorde.png. I think Linux is more a state of mind. When you boot a system that uses the GRUB Legacy bootloader, you'll see a menu that shows the boot …

Open source licenses can grant you the right to copy and redistribute the software to everyone you want. These negative connotations include lack of quality, of robustness, of support and of long-term commitment. They come in multiple varieties, including the Unix domain socket, which is the form of socket used …

Not often are our basic rights thought of in the context of technology, but as more and more our lives are dependent on technology, it is a rapidly growing concern. What interesting system calls are provided in Linux compared to other Unix variants? To begin with, we have to understand …

Software running on the CPU must be able to read and write those controlling registers. Each process is in turn associated with exactly one uid, which identifies the user running the process, and is called the process's real uid. For many people, the next step will be to carefully read …

If that original deal with Target and Best Buy had worked out, we would have never accepted the next deal, which turned into a long-lasting business relationship that WOODCHUCK is still part of today.

Just as Kevin and I were wondering what to do with the nearly sixty thousand iPad …

Trish didn’t make us sign any contracts, which made it seem like we would have been fools to not accept her offer. Shortly after that, we ended up becoming very close. In fact, I thought of her as a sister and mentor at one point. When times got tough …

I thought about what he was trying to tell me, and said, “You know what? I think that actually makes a lot of sense.”

Exactly at that moment, my shift in mindset occurred. Total financial disaster had instantly transformed into my official arrival on the entrepreneurial scene. I was getting …

I thought about what he was trying to tell me, and said, “You know what? I think that actually makes a lot of sense.”

Exactly at that moment, my shift in mindset occurred. Total financial disaster had instantly transformed into my official arrival on the entrepreneurial scene. I was getting …

Share your personal experiences (good and bad) with Linux. They represent a totally different way of producing software that opens up every aspect of development, debugging, testing, and study to anyone with enough interest in doing so. Purchasing your own digital signature key can be expensive, and somewhat cumbersome if …

There is yet one other weakness: if a computer switches operating systems later, the long uptime is credited to the new OS. Imagine if you wanted to become a great writer but weren't allowed to read any books. In general, there is a tendency for advocates of the term term …