Zack Weinberg

This is a draft proposal for changes to the POSIX specification for environment variables (including both the various C library functions for access to environment variables, and the underlying data structure). The goal is to make it possible for multithreaded programs to modify the environment (the set of environment…

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I didn’t learn Unix by reading all the manpages (2022)

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Originally drafted as a thread on hackers.town , after Abbie Normal asked me to expand on a side comment in a discussion of documentation .

I Will File Bugs for You (2014)

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This post prompted by Aaron Klotz’s Diffusion of Responsibility and Sumana Harihareswara’s Inessential Weirdnesses in Open Source .