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Why is I/O uninterruptible?
What is the rationale behind making I/O uninterruptible? What would be the negative consequences if a process handling I/O were allowed to handle a signal?
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Write inside a socket open by another process in Linux
Is it possible on Linux for a process to write inside a socket open by another one?
Let's say I open a connection to google.com using netcat:
myuser@linux:~$ nc google.com 80
Now I can lookup for ...
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How to stop xargs from badly merging output from multiple processes?
I'm using xargs with the option --max-args=0 (alternatively -P 0).
However, the output of the processes is merged into the stdout stream without regard for proper line separation. So I'll often end ...
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Find out what processes are writing to hard drive
On my Lenovo T400 and Ubuntu, the light for hard drive writing keeps flashing. I was wondering if in Linux it is possible to find out what processes are doing I/O to the hard drive? Just like by top, ...
