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// ==UserScript== | |
// @name anti key-grabber | |
// @description Prevent web apps from capturing and muting vital keyboard shortcuts | |
// @grant none | |
// @version 1.1 | |
// ==/UserScript== | |
(function(){ | |
var isMac = unsafeWindow.navigator.oscpu.toLowerCase().contains("mac os x"); | |
unsafeWindow.document.addEventListener('keydown', function(e) { | |
if (e.keyCode === 116) { |
I recently happened upon a very interesting implementation of popen()
(different API, same idea) called popen-noshell using clone(2)
, and so I opened an issue requesting use of vfork(2)
or posix_spawn()
for portability. It turns out that on Linux there's an important advantage to using clone(2)
. I think I should capture the things I wrote there in a better place. A gist, a blog, whatever.
This is not a paper. I assume reader familiarity with
fork()
in particular and Unix in general, though, of course, I link to relevant wiki pages, so if the unfamiliar reader is willing to go down the rabbit hole, they should be able to come ou