Readline is a software library (part of the GNU Project) that provides line-editing and history capabilities for interactive programs with a command-line interface.
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How to unfreeze after accidentally pressing Ctrl-S in a terminal?
It's a situation that has happened quite often to me: after I press (with a different intention) Ctrl-S in a terminal, the interaction (input or output) with it is frozen. It's probably a kind of ...
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Where does the yanked text on commadline get stored?
When you delete characters on the command line using readline commands (e.g. Ctrl-U, you can paste using Ctrl-y, but where does it get stored? It does not seem to use X11 clipboard at all.
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How race conditions affect reads and writes (that happen at the same time)
Let's say I open a file a for reading. What if an application, let's call it aWriter writes to this file in random intervals. Are there any possibilities of me receiving improper file contents if I ...
