As an alternative method to signing on through the TELNET daemon, the UNIX spawner program allows SAS/CONNECT sessions on UNIX systems without requiring that username ...

This is a book about Unix programming, but in it we’re going to toss around the words “culture,” “art,” and “philosophy” a lot. If you are not a programmer, or you are a programmer who has had little ...

Although this book is the second edition of this title, the former edition was published quite a while ago, 20 years to be exact. Quite a bit in UNIX programming has changed since then. The book ...

The following excerpt is from chapter 3, User-Level Memory Management, of Arnold Robbins’ book Linux Programming by Example: The Fundamentals, Prentice Hall PTR; (April 12, 2004), used with permission ...

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What's so special about it? Simple, eBPF enables you to run programs in the Linux kernel without changing the kernel source code or adding additional modules. In effect, it acts like a lightweight, ...

Linux skills are in growing demand in today’s IT hiring landscape, and there are many ways to bolster those skills both online and off. Whereas many such offerings target IT professionals, however, a ...