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Software I’m thankful for (2021)

Most Unix-ish APIs, from files to sockets are a bit of a mess today. Endless poorly documented sockopts, unexpected changes in write semantics across FSs and OSes, good luck trying to figure out mtimes . But despite the mess, I can generally wrap my head around open/read/write/close. I can strace a binary and figure…
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Sep 23, 2022Software I’m thankful for (2021) by yarapavan813509

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