Continuing from the day before yesterday, I started looking into linkers and loaders. Till now, I haven't had experience writing multiple C files that work together. And up until yesterday, my only other experience with .so files has been knowing that if I put opencv's .so file in my Python …
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Using strace to spy on ghostscript's system calls made me wonder if there's a way to print the names of all function calls (along with their file paths) that a compiled executable makes after you invoke it on the command-line. This would be awesome to navigate large C codebases …
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Today I did some Yak shaving and made opep because opening/reading each PEP in its own browser tab (with all the extra information on the webpage) was getting tiring both for me and the browser.
I'd used the man command a lot yesterday to read some manual entries, so …
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I recently (at the start of my batch) found out about strace from this zine by Julia Evans! Today I used it to look at things ghostscript does under the hood (system calls!) to do a PDF to PNG conversion. I also read through the manual page for strace which …
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Today I spent a lot of time upgrading my Ubuntu from 18.04 to 20.04, just to get a new version of gnome-shell which was needed by this cool window manager I wanted to try out. The whole process reminded me of 2014 when I was literally trying out …
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