Viacheslav Biriukov

Hi, I’m Viacheslav 👋 Welcome to my corner of the web where code, systems thinking, and life philosophy meet. I write about GNU/Linux, SRE, Golang, Rust, async I/O, and network engineering. Blog posts # Async Rust gotcha: evolving tokio::select! code has sharp edges… or a story about Cancellation safety…

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GNU/Linux shell related internals

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What every SRE should know about GNU/Linux shell related internals: file descriptors, pipes, terminals, user sessions, process groups and daemons # Last updated: Oct 2025 Contents File descriptor and open file description Pipes Process groups, jobs and sessions Terminals and pseudoterminals Despite the era of…