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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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How modern Linux systems boot

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Unix’s file durability problem

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How I wound up finding a bug in GNU Tar

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In Praise of ZFS on Linux's ZED 'ZFS Event Daemon'

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Text consoles and framebuffer consoles in Linux

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SELinux is beyond saving

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The origins of chroot()

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