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What are high memory and low memory on Linux?

jan 29 at 20:04 hiro 11

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What is a Superblock, Inode, Dentry and a File?

linux filesystems files terminology inode

may 1 at 18:50 naftalimich 13

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What happens when a USB drive is plugged in?

usb hot-plug

jan 12 '11 at 21:45 ewindisch 519

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What is a spinlock in Linux?

linux spinlock lock

dec 29 '10 at 19:50 Gilles 139k

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What is the difference between procfs and sysfs?

linux filesystems

dec 16 '10 at 14:14 Johan 1,623

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How is a message queue implemented in the Linux kernel?

linux kernel

feb 6 '11 at 16:34 wag 7,783

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What is the difference between ioctl(), unlocked_ioctl() and compat_ioctl()?

linux drivers

may 18 '11 at 14:19 Gilles 139k

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How is an Interrupt handled in Linux?

linux kernel interrupt

jan 15 '11 at 10:28 John 27

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What does the Virtual kernel Memory Layout in dmesg imply?

linux kernel memory

dec 29 '10 at 18:04 Gilles 139k

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What's the difference between fork() and vfork()?

linux system-calls fork

jun 12 '11 at 11:52 Gilles 139k

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Why should a child of a vfork or fork call _exit() instead of exit()?

c system-calls fork exit

jun 12 '11 at 11:52 Gilles 139k

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What is the difference between the following kernel Makefile terms: vmlinux, vmlinuz, vmlinux.bin, zimage & bzimage?

linux kernel file-format

feb 4 '12 at 1:55 David 378

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How to find the BSP sections in the Linux source code?

linux kernel

dec 28 '10 at 19:18 Gilles 139k

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Is Ramdisk and initrd the same?

linux boot initrd

dec 22 '10 at 15:24 Michael Mrozek♦ 23.7k

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Is it possible to support multiple processes without support for Virtual memory?

process memory

feb 24 '11 at 6:04 Tshepang 8,038

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Do I need to cross-compile my program when my target is 64 bit arch. and host is 32 bit arch from x86 family?

linux compiling

dec 22 '10 at 20:20 Gilles 139k

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Pointers in Learning Linux 0.01 Source code

linux source

oct 23 at 8:01 Tshepang 8,038

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What is the difference between likely and unlikely calls in Kernel?

linux kernel

apr 19 '11 at 8:19 Mat 16k

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What is the difference between a Library call and a System call in Linux?

linux libraries system-calls

feb 6 '11 at 15:38 ultrasawblade 3,922

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How to use diff tool to take a diff between directories with libraries and source?

linux directory diff

dec 22 '10 at 15:25 Michael Mrozek♦ 23.7k

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What is the need of the struct thread_info in locating struct task_struct?

linux kernel process multithreading

jul 26 at 12:47 Community♦ 1

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More doubts in bzImage

linux kernel executable file-format

jan 14 '11 at 8:00 wag 7,783

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How to understand the kernel panic core dump output?

linux kernel-panic core-dump

jan 13 '11 at 16:28 mfe 31

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How to create a new partition on a hard disk?

linux partition hard-disk fdisk

dec 21 '10 at 9:51 Michael Mrozek♦ 23.7k

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What is the difference between Non-preemptive, Preemptive and Selective Preemptive Kernel?

linux kernel

feb 17 at 23:10 user32568 1

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Can there be multiple kernels executing at the same time?

kernel architecture concurrency

feb 22 '11 at 19:23 Gilles 139k

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How does a debugger work in Linux?

linux debugging

feb 5 '11 at 13:36 stribika 1,909

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How to reuse Physical memory in the absence of swapping?

linux memory swap

jan 31 '11 at 10:09 Benoît 131

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What's the limit on the no. of partitions I can have?

partition

jan 12 '11 at 21:13 ewindisch 519

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Is it possible to execute code in heap space?

linux memory dynamic-linking

jan 6 '11 at 19:41 Gilles 139k

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