Stories by r4um

How to stop Linux threads cleanly

Why use strace in 2023? [video]

Time vs. Risk

A Cap Tradeoff in the Wild

Why Unix's lseek() has that name instead of 'seek()'

The One Billion Row Challenge

Unexpected ways memory subsystem interacts with branch prediction

Poor Charlie's Almanack

4B If Statements

Negotiable Abstractions

Fragmentation

The mysterious second parameter to the x86 ENTER instruction

Is your reported p99 wrong?

A very subtle bug (2010)

Setenv Is Not Thread Safe and C Doesn't Want to Fix It

Using Suffix Trees to Detect Homology at Scale

Why is there a hash of a weak password in the Windows cryptographic libraries?

DNS Is the New BGP

The roots of an obscure Bourne shell error message

Invariants: A Better Debugger?

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