Human folly for 02023-12-29

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• Cache made consistent (engineering.fb.com):

  how #Fecebutt handles cache consistency in TAO and memcached #event-notification

• Cache invalidation using MQTT (medium.com):

  cache invalidation for #event-notification over #MQTT

• Doc (netpbm.sourceforge.net):

  the documentation for the "Netpbm" image manipulation toolkit, including #file-format documentation

• Ppm (netpbm.sourceforge.net):

  #file-format documentation for #netpbm P3 and P6 formats (.ppm)

• FAM (web.archive.org):

  article about #FAM, SGI’s networked #event-notification system for Unix filesystems, now replaced by Gamin

• Doc (web.archive.org):

  the archived home page for "FAM", SGI’s Unix filesystem #event-notification system, now replaced by Gamin

• Things Unix can do Atomically (rcrowley.org):

  list of things like mkdir which are safely atomic on Unix. #concurrency #atomicity

• C9L7Rw0S7Yu0 (lwn.net):

  discussion of mkdirat+openat; SirCmpwn’s atomicity concern was that someone might rmdir the directory between the mkdir/mkdirat and the open/openat

• Rename (weirdnet.nl):

  #Apple fucked up #atomicity of rename() in OSX from 02008 until 02011. #concurrency

• Item (news.ycombinator.com):

  discussion of #atomicity in Unix #concurrency

• User (news.ycombinator.com):

  Tom Lord’s Hacker News account

• Msg20456 (mail-archive.com):

  mkdir lacks #atomicity over #NFS #concurrency

• Is it good practice to use mkdir as file based locking on Linux (stackoverflow.com):

  a disadvantage of mkdir-based #atomicity is that your lock directory survives process crashes

• FAQ (web.archive.org):

  The FAQ for SGI’s #FAM networked file #event-notification system

• Viewtopic (forum.minetest.net):

  how to get #Minetest working on #IPv6

• LCR meters (hoytech.github.io):

  Doug Hoyte’s slide deck about how to measure small-value capacitances by loading a JFET Hartley resonator. #electronics #metrology #hardware

• Model checking for the working man MF (rix0r.nl):

  Using #TLA+ #formal-methods for detecting a race condition

• (dl.acm.org):

  Lorie’s #paper “Physical integrity in a large segmented database” about shadow pages in #databases