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Signal safety and why should you care

UPDATE 2025-07-25: Clarified async-signal safety in context of boost::asio::signal_set UPDATE 2025-08-12: Mention sigaction as an alternative to signal. Thanks to

What are some surprising places that might be called from inside a signal handler ...

... that might be a common source of errors? #C #posix #linux #bsd

Ever felt your app is too fast? Ever had the need to slow it down? Announcing ...

... crawlio, a tool that slows down I/O operations by given amount of time. Test application behaviour under slow I/O conditions Bring back the dial-up nostalgia

Re: using `int kill(pid_t pid, int sig)` https://linux.die.net/man/3/kill #linux ...

... #unix #posix

dropbear SSH - relatively small SSH server and client

dropbear SSH relatively small SSH server and client Screenshots Hunter's comment Dropbear is a relatively small SSH server and client. It runs on a variety of

Condensed my Linux study down to one page!

This posix system is really easy to memorize. I think that an understanding is probably important, but I watched almost an hour or video instructions to make this

Slightly more tolerable....

I find Linux is quite ubiquitous now that I am looking for it. I would totally prefer a humorous or possibly nude Linux channel.