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Chris Siebenmann

utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks

Chris Siebenmann is a Unix herder who now works at the Department of Computer Science , where you can find his nominal new home page . For reasons beyond the scope of this web page, his techblog continues to live here, on this web server. You can read his old UTCC home page , which dates from when he worked for UTCC…

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The technical merits of Wayland are mostly irrelevant

You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…

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Even in Go, concurrency is still not easy

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Go 1.21 may have a clear(x) builtin

You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…

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The format of strings in early (pre-C) Unix

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ZFS on Linux still has annoying issues with ARC size

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File Locks on Linux

You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…