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@nicowilliams
nicowilliams / fork-is-evil-vfork-is-good-afork-would-be-better.md
Last active May 18, 2024 14:10
fork() is evil; vfork() is goodness; afork() would be better; clone() is stupid

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

@namuol
namuol / INSTALL.md
Last active July 24, 2023 11:53
rage-quit support for bash

rage-quit support for bash

HOW TO INSTALL

Put flip somewhere in your $PATH and chmod a+x it.

Copy fuck into ~/.bashrc.

@avar
avar / things-to-do-in-iceland.md
Last active June 27, 2023 18:31
Recommendations for things to do in Iceland

I get asked by people wanting to visit Iceland what they should do while they're there. Rather than re-type (and mostly forget) the whole thing I just give them a link to this.

Stuff that isn't this guide

...as if you didn't know how to use Google.

  • I'm partial to The Lonely Planet guides whenever I visit other places. I haven't checked the one for Iceland but it's probably
@jweir
jweir / redis-eventsource.go
Last active April 19, 2021 03:08
Example of using Redis PubSub and EventSource with golang
package main
import (
eventsource "github.com/antage/eventsource/http"
redis "github.com/vmihailenco/redis"
"log"
"net/http"
)
func haltOnErr(err error){