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nicowilliams / fork-is-evil-vfork-is-good-afork-would-be-better.md
Last active May 14, 2025 00:42
fork() is evil; vfork() is goodness; afork() would be better; clone() is stupid

I recently happened upon a very interesting implementation of popen() (different API, same idea) called popen-noshell using clone(2), and so I opened an issue requesting use of vfork(2) or posix_spawn() for portability. It turns out that on Linux there's an important advantage to using clone(2). I think I should capture the things I wrote there in a better place. A gist, a blog, whatever.

This is not a paper. I assume reader familiarity with fork() in particular and Unix in general, though, of course, I link to relevant wiki pages, so if the unfamiliar reader is willing to go down the rabbit hole, they should be able to come ou

@AdrianKoshka
AdrianKoshka / make_ipxe_uefi_usb.md
Last active February 25, 2025 10:56
Making a UEFI bootable iPXE USB drive

Making a UEFI bootable iPXE USB drive

Build the UEFI executable for iPXE

# First we'll clone iPXE
$ git clone git://git.ipxe.org/ipxe.git
# Go into the src directory of the cloned git repo
$ cd ipxe/src
# Compile the UEFI iPXE executable
@alirobe
alirobe / reclaimWindows10.ps1
Last active May 14, 2025 14:03
This Windows 10 Setup Script turns off a bunch of unnecessary Windows 10 telemetery, bloatware, & privacy things. Not guaranteed to catch everything. Review and tweak before running. Reboot after running. Scripts for reversing are included and commented. Fork of https://github.com/Disassembler0/Win10-Initial-Setup-Script (different defaults). N.…
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### UPDATE: For Win 11, I recommend using this tool in place of this script:
### https://christitus.com/windows-tool/
### https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil
### https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UQZ5oQg8XA
### iwr -useb https://christitus.com/win | iex
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### OR take a look at
### https://github.com/HotCakeX/Harden-Windows-Security
@Tapped
Tapped / uninstall_fuse.sh
Last active July 17, 2023 10:16
Uninstall Fuse
#!/bin/sh
# Call this script as root to fully remove Fuse
# For example: 'sudo ./uninstall_fuse.sh'
rm -rvf \
/Applications/Fuse.app \
/usr/local/bin/fuse \
/usr/local/bin/uno \
/usr/local/bin/unotest \
@J2TEAM
J2TEAM / sublime-text-scopes.md
Last active January 17, 2024 22:44 — forked from iambibhas/scopes.txt
Sublime Text 2/3: Snippet scopes

Here is a list of scopes to use in Sublime Text 2/3 snippets -

ActionScript: source.actionscript.2
AppleScript: source.applescript
ASP: source.asp
Batch FIle: source.dosbatch
C#: source.cs
C++: source.c++
Clojure: source.clojure
var MultiLineTextInputWidget = React.createClass({
mixins: [BasicWidgetMixin],
onChange: function(event) {
this.recalculateSize();
if (this.props.onChange) {
this.props.onChange(event.target.value);
}
},
@ArtemGr
ArtemGr / system.rs
Last active December 22, 2023 07:08
Read lines from a pipe as soon as they come out (useful for filtering).
#![feature(mpsc_select, box_syntax)]
use std::io;
use std::process::Command;
use std::sync::mpsc::{channel, Receiver, Select};
use std::string::FromUtf8Error;
use std::thread::spawn;
#[derive(Debug)]
enum PipeError {
@nicolasembleton
nicolasembleton / restart_bluetooth.sh
Last active May 11, 2024 17:43
Restart Bluetooth Daemon on Mac OS X without restarting
#!/bin/bash
sudo kextunload -b com.apple.iokit.BroadcomBluetoothHostControllerUSBTransport
sudo kextload -b com.apple.iokit.BroadcomBluetoothHostControllerUSBTransport
@progrium
progrium / prog
Last active January 20, 2017 18:48
playing around with a little bash subcommand environment
#!/bin/bash
cmd-hello() {
declare desc="Displays a friendly hello"
declare firstname="$1" lastname="$2"
echo "Hello, $firstname $lastname."
}
cmd-help() {
declare desc="Shows help information for a command"