There was a time when trying to learn to write low-level driver or kernel code was hard. You really needed two machines: one to work with, and one to screw up over and over again until you got it ...

If you are a Pythonista or a data scientist, you’ve probably used Jupyter. If you haven’t, it is an interesting way to work with Python by placing it in a Markdown document in a web browser. Part ...

Creating a lock file (say, in /tmp) is a common approach. On launch, check to see if the file already exists. If it does, exit. Otherwise, create it and continue. This can lead to problems if your app ...

Google has open-sourced today a project for sandboxing C and C++ libraries running on Linux systems. The project's name is the Sandboxed API, a tool that Google has been using internally for its data ...

I can't seem to find any information on checking privileges in C. What it the best way to check privileges? I don't have sudo setup, so it will always be root (uid 0) that runs the program. Second ...