Lacking Rhoticity

Git's model of changes (which is shared by Mercurial, Bazaar and Monotone) makes it awkward to revise earlier patches. This can make th...

Although modern version control systems have improved a lot on CVS, I get the feeling that there is a fundamental version control problem th...

The trouble with Buildbot is that it encourages you to put rules into a Buildbot-specific build configuration that is separate from the nor...

Here is a useful trick I discovered recently while debugging some changes to the seccomp sandbox . To trigger a breakpoint on x86, just do:...

adb is the Android debugger (officially the "Android debug bridge" I think). It is a tool for getting shell access to an Android...

Message-passing syscalls on Linux include read(), write(), sendmsg() and recvmsg(). These are message-passing because: They take a file ...

I have spent some time packaging software as Debian packages. While the Debian packaging system has its faults, it has the nice property th...