you misspelled "Linux"
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that ruins the joke because Unix has a design and Linux doesn't
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*woosh*
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Bah, that's nothing. Here's my favourite, from readdir_r(), which has a handy built-in buffer overflow if you "guess" wrong!pic.twitter.com/fMKZThOVoZ
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In fairness this isn't unix design but a stupid hack added to Linux to work around the scheduler's failure to put tasks on best core.
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It's on about the same level as prefetch or simd intrinsics (working around compiler's failure to generate them from source).
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Figure Out The Size Of Your Affinity Mask In Log(N) With This One Weird Trick
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OS with with elegant design is like games with maintainable code. It’s a myth
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You don't get it, it's the Unix philosophy. One program to set affinity, other to binary search CPU amount. Do just one job, but really well
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Similar to this: plenty of programs do an EINVAL binary search for the effective open files ulimit.https://twitter.com/alangrow/status/807294183849558016 …
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Unix was interesting. With this stuff, wait till you get to systemd
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you can use binary search to probe in log(n), tell me that's not beautiful design!
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A great example of why shooting the messenger is sometimes the right thing to do.
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Sounds exactly like the tech talk I heard on this subject in 2005
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It's a beautiful reuse of the select() design
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It's like working with JCL all over again.
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It worked for all those cathedrals, amirite?
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