I’d be glad for anyone who cares to look to read and comment on these functions. The idea is to be able to abort and retry, or fail, an operation on a slow link. I’ll work on fgets replacements tomorrow…
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Monthly Archives: September 2007
Anatomy of a mostly-dead network catastrophy
Wednesday, September 26th, 2007
One of the things that you hear over and over again is that “the network is not reliable.” You hear people say it, blog it, write it down in books, podcast it (I’m sure.) You hear it, you think to yourself “oh… that makes sense…” and you go on your merry way. You’re developing your [...]
Public Service Announcement
Saturday, September 22nd, 2007
If you live and work by your phone And you have indoor pets Do not, under any circumstances, place your phone near and above a large glass of water. We now return you to your regularly scheduled internet
Bash: “I Can’t Eat Another Byte”
Thursday, September 13th, 2007
root@server:/dir/ # ls | wc -l 1060731 root@server:/dir/ # for i in *; do rm -v $i done; done me@home:~/ # HUH? Turns out that bash just couldn’t eat another byte, and next time I logged in I saw this: “bash[5469]: segfault at 0000007fbf7ffff8 rip 00000000004749bf rsp 0000007fbf7fffe0 error 6“… Impressive