Lacking Rhoticity

Time for another post on how object-capability security might be done in Python. Suppose function closures in Python were encapsulated (i....

The Python standard library now works under Native Client in the web browser, including the Sqlite extension module . By that I mean tha...

In my last post I showed how to get a readable execution trace of a process using a simple ptrace()-based tracer (itrace) and binutils'...

gdb can be really useful for debugging when it prints the information you want, but sometimes it will fail to give a useful backtrace, and i...

Back in January I wrote that I was porting glibc to Native Client . I have made some good progress since then. The port is at the stage...

Time for me to follow up my previous blog post and explain the code snippets. Snippet 1 funcs = [] for x in (1, 2, 3): funcs.append...

What do the six following chunks of code do, and what would you like them to do? Which do you prefer? funcs = [] for x in (1, 2, 3): ...