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Microsoft Windows Internals
As most readers here know, I'm no fan of Microsoft. However, Microsoft operating systems are a big part of today's computer world. While I may hope for change (and I really believe there will be change over the next decade), I can't afford to ignore Microsoft entirely. Hence this book. If you have been a casual Microsoft programmer, hacker or support person, this will give you the tools and knowledge to step up.
Controlling core files (Linux) Core files will then just be named "core". People do things like that so that a user can choose to put a non-writable file named "core" in directories where they don't want to generate core dumps. That could be a directory (mkdir core) or a file (touch core;chmod 000 core). I've seen it suggested that a symlink named core would redirect the dump to wherever it pointed, but I found that didn't work. But perhaps more interesting is that you can do:
Understanding the Linux Kernel Once again, I'm disappointed by a Linux Kernel book. Are there any good ones at all? I'm in the minority here: Amazon loves it, all the reviewers sing its praises, so it must be only me who finds it confusing, incomplete, and annoying.
Controlling core files (Linux) Core files will then just be named "core". People do things like that so that a user can choose to put a non-writable file named "core" in directories where they don't want to generate core dumps. That could be a directory (mkdir core) or a file (touch core;chmod 000 core). I've seen it suggested that a symlink named core would redirect the dump to wherever it pointed, but I found that didn't work. But perhaps more interesting is that you can do:
Understanding the Linux Kernel Once again, I'm disappointed by a Linux Kernel book. Are there any good ones at all? I'm in the minority here: Amazon loves it, all the reviewers sing its praises, so it must be only me who finds it confusing, incomplete, and annoying.
| Title | Date | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| TASK_KILLABLE | 2009 02 | 2009/02/27 12:06 NickBarron |
| Essential Linux Device Drivers | 2008 05 | 2008/05/06 13:28 TonyLawrence |
| Where's the memory? | 2006 06 | 2009/02/28 00:43 anonymous |
