You will need the libcurses-dev packet which can be installed with:
APT: (Debian, Ubuntu)
sudo apt-get install libncurses-dev -y
YUM/DNF: (Fedora)
sudo yum intall libncurses-dev -y
vancura
/ source-code-typography.md
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May 26, 2021 17:46
Presentation: http://www.slideshare.net/vancura/source-code-typography
Dumb quotes (also known as straight quotes) are straight and vertical. Proper typography never uses straight quotes. They are left over from the age of typewriters, and their only modern use is for coding.
nicowilliams
/ fork-is-evil-vfork-is-good-afork-would-be-better.md
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May 6, 2025 20:01
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
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susam
/ vectors.md
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January 22, 2024 05:10
This document contains excerpts from my web server logs collected over a period of 7 years that shows various kinds of recon and attack vectors.
There were a total of 37.2 million lines of logs out of which 1.1 million unique HTTP requests (Method + URI) were found.
$ sed 's/^.* - - \[.*\] "\(.*\) HTTP\/.*" .*/\1/' access.log > requests.txt
erincandescent
/ RISC-V.md
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July 25, 2019 23:32
This document was originally written several years ago. At the time I was working as an execution core verification engineer at Arm. The following points are coloured heavily by working in and around the execution cores of various processors. Apply a pinch of salt; points contain varying degrees of opinion.
It is still my opinion that RISC-V could be much better designed; though I will also say that if I was building a 32 or 64-bit CPU today I'd likely implement the architecture to benefit from the existing tooling.
Mostly based upon the RISC-V ISA spec v2.0. Some updates have been made for v2.2
The RISC-V ISA has pursued minimalism to a fault. There is a large emphasis on minimizing instruction count, normalizing encoding, etc. This pursuit of minimalism has resulted in false orthogonalities (such as reusing the same instruction for branches, calls and returns) and a requirement for superfluous instructions which impacts code density both in terms of size and
PoroCYon
/ smol-src-ref.md
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June 2, 2024 22:16
- dnload writeup
- Magic Global Offset Table (GOT) slot entries: http://users.eecs.northwestern.edu/%7Ekch479/docs/notes/linking.html
This guide is for homelab admins who understand IPv4s well but find setting up IPv6 hard or annoying because things work differently. In some ways, managing an IPv6 network can be simpler than IPv4, one just needs to learn some new concepts and discard some old ones.
Let’s begin.
First of all, there are some concepts that one must unlearn from ipv4:
Concept 1