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by skissane 4y ago
But what do they mean by that phrase then? I think a lot of people who think "macOS isn't Unix" (or similarly, "z/OS isn't Unix") aren't aware of the legal status of the term "Unix" – that i
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by skissane 4y ago
Imagine you translate a book into 5 different languages. Then bind the five translations into a single volume. At the front, you put a brief table of contents listing the page number at which each translation begins. Each reader opens the b
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by skissane 4y ago
> incorporates quite many countermeasures in its IP core How hard would it be for SiFive to take one of their existing designs, which lacks those countermeasures, and add them?
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by skissane 4y ago
> Interesting! ESA has been using a custom SPARC V8 rad hard architecture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LEON While LEON isn't going away any time soon (especially given the recent release of the new LEON-5), I
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by skissane 4y ago
Cool, did not know that. Indeed I see this in shared/afunix.h: #define SIO_AF_UNIX_GETPEERPID _WSAIOR(IOC_VENDOR, 256) // Returns ULONG PID of the connected peer process #define SIO_AF_UNIX_SETBINDPARENTPATH _WSAIOW
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by skissane 4y ago
Even though you lose the filesystem-based security, you can still use SO_PEERCRED or getpeereid and validate the caller's UID is what you expect, something which Linux doesn't support on localhost TCP sockets. Requiring the client
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by skissane 4y ago
I think the answer on Windows is "No". One could fork a subprocess, chdir()+socket() there, then pass the socket back to parent over another socket (opened maybe with socketpair().) Should work on any Unix-like which supports SCM_
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by skissane 4y ago
Cool. So to update your list: > Things that support SMB out of the box: Windows, Mac, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, illumos > Things that support NFSv4 out of the box: Windows, Mac, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, illumos OpenBSD is the on
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by skissane 4y ago
Makes sense. Although, what's the difference between a "library" and a "directory", other than the name? I think the difference is more terminological than conceptual.
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by skissane 4y ago
The Linux kernel contains both NFS and SMB clients – so in that sense, supports both equally "out of the box". Whether either or both are compiled-in (or available as loadable modules) will depend on the distribution. Windows has
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by skissane 4y ago
One has to wonder how likely such a future use actually is going to be. Opinions vary widely as to how much adoption hydrogen is actually going to see in coming decades. Attempts to commercialise it thus far have seen quite limited success,
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by skissane 4y ago
> That was kind of my point in originally noting that it isn't _really_ Db2 Well, "Db2" isn't really a thing. There is the original DB2 for MVS (now Db2 for z/OS). And then there are three other codebases which h
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by skissane 4y ago
> you can chdir to the directory before bind/connect Since working directory is per-process not per-thread, this seems a great way to introduce race condition bugs. It also basically rules it out for anything meant to be used as a l
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by skissane 4y ago
At least with this I can work out what your primary points are. The most important takeaway seems to be that OpenSSH sshd doesn't really use PAM unless you enable "ChallengeResponseAuth" config option, so if you want your cus
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by skissane 4y ago
> Take the Many Worlds theory of Quantum Mechanics Some will say that, to be strictly correct about terminology, QM is a theory , but many worlds is an interpretation of it. The theory belongs to physics proper; the interpretation bel
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by skissane 4y ago
Thank you for reminding me – I knew that, but had forgotten. I will try to remember next time.
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by skissane 4y ago
The developer says they will release source code soon – https://github.com/macos-fuse-t/fuse-t/issues/1#issuecomment... – although keeping the restrictive license. Apple is introducing user-space file system
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by skissane 4y ago
I remember, around 10 years ago, mucking around with WebDAV, and discovering many WebDAV clients were extremely crapulent. Especially on Windows. Maybe, some years later, Windows' WebDAV client has improved. And I can't remember w
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by skissane 4y ago
What advantages does NFSv4 have over SMB/CIFS for this use case? I have had the same idea myself before, but with a more cross-platform scope (Linux and Windows too, not just macOS). Whatever it flaws, SMB/CIFS has the advantage o
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by skissane 4y ago
Is anybody trying to lift that limitation? It seems like an obvious target for kernel devs to tackle. If Linux and *BSD did it (especially if they adopted a mutually compatible implementation), the POSIX standardisation team (Austin Group)
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by skissane 4y ago
> Aha, that's just an interface for interrogating objects in the traditional QSYS.LIB filesystem. Thanks for that clarification. From what I understand, to create SQL/400, they used the SQL parser and query engine out of SQL&#x
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by skissane 4y ago
> It isn't actually Db2. They call it "Db2 for i," but it's a completely different codebase from what you'll find on z/OS and elsewhere. From what I understand, the DB2/400 code base was forked from SQL
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by skissane 4y ago
I am guessing that Oracle is worried that if they give up (or somehow lose) the JavaScript trademark, that may threaten their ownership of the Java trademark - the later is far more important to them than the former.
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by skissane 4y ago
Do you have any evidence to support your claims that Cloudflare donated money to Westboro Baptist Church? Unless you have good evidence, your claims are slander.
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by skissane 4y ago
> It did support a SQL query syntax, which I think makes it distinct from MVS SQL query support wasn’t added to PICK platforms until the 1990s or thereabouts - at least 10 years after SQL became available on MVS (via DB2, Oracle, etc)
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by skissane 4y ago
> They weren't attacked, Cf was attacked for employing them That sentence is illogical. Attacking X's employer for employing X is an attack on X – it is saying that X is unworthy of being employed > Cf has a habit of financi
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by skissane 4y ago
How much is B7/S24 missing compared to an operational vehicle? Artemis 1 doesn't have the configuration of a fully operational vehicle either. Artemis 1's Orion doesn't have a fully functioning life support system, launc
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by skissane 4y ago
I think if you used to work with someone, and now they are dead – being upset at people publicly attacking them, when they aren't around to defend themselves, is a very understandable human reaction. eastdakota's reaction here is
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by skissane 4y ago
Back in 2016, Musk was talking about landing a Crew Dragon capsule on Mars, albeit with no crew on it. His original 2018 timeline was likely over ambitious, but SpaceX probably could have achieved it by now – if they'd stuck with their
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by skissane 4y ago
Cochran is the person that both GossiTheDog and eastdakota were talking about. (I'm not sure about the Jaime vs Jamie spelling – my impression is "Jaime" is what she preferred at the time of her death, so I'm going to go

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