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Articles tagged with #linux
Occasionally, we folks using Linux find our selves in situations where things break; our computers do not function as intended. In my scenario, I was out on business in another country, and my WiFi device was simply not showing up after a reboot. I k...
A gentle introduction to userspace instrumentation
In this blog, we will continue with tracing. We'll aim to get a basic understanding of: How processes work Exit codes Forking of processes Exit tracepoints (of the execve() syscall) Recommended reading: If you've not read the first article, ple...
Enter God mode
This is one of those situations where I had to get through a task for which there was not too much publicly available documentation. Hence I'm writing the blog in the hope that it helps someone who is trying to do the same thing. What I was trying to...
Sometimes I just like to write about how I solved a problem that took me way longer than it really should have. This was one of those problems which persisted for over a month. I got my hands on a Lenovo Thinkpad P1. This machine had problems with t...
