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Turmoil, a framework for developing and testing distributed systems
Cool, will be interested to see how this develops! tokio's loom framework has been a big help in testing some tricky concurrency code I've worked on.
Folks interested in this space might also be interested in the system I spend most of my time working on: Shadow. It also performs deterministic simulation of a network of hosts, but it intercepts network and system interactions at the syscall level via seccomp. As such it can work with binaries compiled from ~any language, usually without any code modification or special compilation. https://shadow.github.io/
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I reinvented another wheel, linux threads.
Nice writeup! I've also had to dig a bit into this area in my work on shadow.
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Shadow Simulation Developer
It is no longer active. If you are asking about Shadow, check out https://shadow.github.io
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How to avoid bounds checks in Rust (without unsafe!)
I do share this hesitation. I think for simple cases iterators are usually fine, but I've definitely run into cases where an iterator adapter caused unexpected performance problems. e.g. https://github.com/shadow/shadow/pull/2543
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Sending signals to Unix process groups
Yes. Though I'm not sure I see the connection to the OP...?
The example I'm most familiar with, because I work on it, is Shadow. We used ptrace for a bit but now use seccomp.
https://github.com/shadow/shadow/
- Shadow Simulator โ run real applications over a simulated Internet topology
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Shadow Simlulator โ run real applications over a simulated Internet topology
For anyone interested in following current development on Shadow, we've been publishing a series of updates. Most recent: https://github.com/shadow/shadow/discussions/1274
The previous update has links back to the whole series; I stopped including it in the most-recent update since it was getting a bit cumbersome: https://github.com/shadow/shadow/discussions/1060
coreutils
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GNU Coreutils 9.5 Can Yield 10~20% Throughput Boost For cp, mv and cat Commands
https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/commit/fcfba90d0d27a1...
A summary of other changes just released in GNU coreutils 9.5 are:
* mv accepts --exchange to swap files
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How the GNU coreutils are tested
> some are simple like yes(1)
Not that simple: https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/blob/master/src/yes.c
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Show HN: Usr/bin/env Docker run
The -S / --split-string option[1] of /usr/bin/env is a relatively recent addition to GNU Coreutils. It's available starting from GNU Coreutils 8.30[2], released on 2018-07-01.
Beware of portability: it relies on a non-standard behavior from some operating systems. It only works for OS's that treat all the text after the first space as argument(s) to the shebanged executable; rather than just treating the whole string as an executable path (that can happen to contain spaces).
Fortunately this non-standard behavior is more the norm than the exception: it works at least on modern GNU/Linux, BSDs, and macOS.
[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/env-...
[2] https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/blob/b09dc6306e7affaf...
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From Nand to Tetris: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles
> building a cat from scratch
> That would be an interesting project.
Here is the source code of the OpenBSD implementation of cat:
> https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/master/bin/cat/cat.c
and here of the GNU coreutils implementation:
> https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/blob/master/src/cat.c
Thus: I don't think building a cat from scratch or creating a tutorial about that topic is particularly hard (even though the HN audience would likely be interested in it). :-)
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The Linux Scheduler: A Decade of Wasted Cores (2016) [pdf]
the yes command, writing to /dev/null, is making IO calls, which interfere with predictable scheduling.
If you look at the source code for yes, https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/blob/master/src/yes.c
it builds a buffer of output and then writes that in a for loop
while (full_write (STDOUT_FILENO, buf, bufused) == bufused)
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nohup not working?
Looking at the source of nohup, if the execvp() of the child happens then it _must_ have already done the signal (SIGHUP, SIG_IGN) so - WTF?
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Is it fair to say "ls" is dead? No commits in 15 years
This got me wondering so I went and looked and it seems like lo and behold there was actually a commit to the GNU ls source just 2 weeks ago.
https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/blob/master/src/ls.c
"maint: prefer char32_t to wchar_t"
- The Tao of Programming
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Decoded: GNU Coreutils
even an empty file? Yes. so now it was a file with a copyright disclaimer and nothing else. And the koan-like question comes to mind is "Can you copyright nothing?" well AT&T sure tried.
Then somebody said our programs should be well defined and not depend on a fluke of unix, which at this point was probable a good idea. so it became "exit 0"
Then somebody said we should write our system utilities in C instead of shell so it runs faster. openbsd still has a good example of how this would look.
http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/~checkout~/src/usr....
At some point gnu bureaucracy got involved and said all programs must support the '-h' flag. so that got added, then they said all programs must support locale so that got added. now days gnu true is an astonishing 80 lines long.
https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/blob/master/src/true....
http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/humor/ATT_Copyright_true.html
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Exa Is Deprecated
> Yes, ls is maintained. Although, maintained is a very strong word. It exists.
Why would it be a strong word? Here it is, in src/ls.c: https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils
It is then packaged by tens of operating system distributions, who themselves maintain extra patchsets, some of which are then upstreamed.
It is installed and used on millions (billions?) of devices, for 3 decades.
It's a very reliable and trusty "sharp stick of metal" :)
What are some alternatives?
mininet - Emulator for rapid prototyping of Software Defined Networks
util-linux
tor - unofficial git repo -- report bugs/issues/pull requests on https://gitlab.torproject.org/ --
madaidans-insecurities
shadow-plugin-tor - A Shadow plug-in that runs the Tor anonymity software
busybox - BusyBox mirror
rebop - Fast stochastic simulator for chemical reaction networks
src - Read-only git conversion of OpenBSD's official CVS src repository. Pull requests not accepted - send diffs to the tech@ mailing list.
testground - ๐งช A platform for testing, benchmarking, and simulating distributed and p2p systems at scale.
linux - Linux kernel source tree
core - Common Open Research Emulator
gnulib - upstream mirror