dingu

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by dingu 7y ago
It's visually a nice collection. As a documentary it is pretty inaccurate in a number of key areas. The BBS Documentary has a very nice and accurate treatment (interviews with actual people from the scene) if one is interested.
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by dingu 7y ago
Ah you edited your response? An HMODULE.. That is weak dude. Calling and HMODULE a HANDLE is cheating... by that definition a UINT is a HANDLE since you can cast it. Can you use HMODULEs orthogonally to common APIs that use Handles? That&#x
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by dingu 7y ago
What does that have to do with anything? You wouldn't use WFMO to implement a futex in Windows. And regardless of anything in Linux, defending WFMO seems like a strange hill to die on. It's not a great API. I'm calling your b
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by dingu 7y ago
what are you on about? I just gave you the specific examples: timerfd, eventfd, signalfd, inotify... these are all epollable fds in Linux? Futex is a special case because futexes themselves are quite special. There is no userspace equivalen
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by dingu 7y ago
You are confused. File descriptors on linux represent "many different types." They are not just for "disk files". Please see signalfd, timerfd, eventfd, inotify, let alone sockets (which themselves represent things other
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by dingu 7y ago
epoll was a problem child API on linux, with a number of missteps early on. It's much better now. It does everything WFMO does and more. What disjoint APIs are you talking about? You can just use epoll and be done with it? What are you
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by dingu 7y ago
Having written a fair share of deeply embedded assembly.. if you're used to writing this close to the metal on a small system, that may have actually have been the most straight-foward way. Since ultimately the score must be rendered t
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by dingu 7y ago
People use systemd because it solves real problems that are not adequately solved by init scripts. Your "want for nothing" says more about your limited needs (which is fine) than anything else about system management services. Reg