While many operating systems seem to try to prevent you from peeking under the hood, Unix and Linux positively encourage it.

After an audit by Zellic, uutils/coreutils 0.9.0 fixes numerous TOCTOU flaws, reduces unsafe code, and speeds up I/O via zero-copy.

The Linux user experience is similar to that of Windows, but there are important conceptual or philosophical differences, too ...

While not as polished as it appears on the surface, the free, highly customizable Ubuntu operating system serves as an excellent introduction to Linux, installing easily and running well.

In the latest chapter on leaky CUPS, a security researcher and his band of bug-hunting agents have found two flaws that can be chained to allow an unauthenticated attacker to remotely execute code and ...

Abstract: We defeat two proposed Unix file-system race condition defense mechanisms. First, we attack the probabilistic defense mechanism of Tsafrir, et al., published at USENIX FAST 2008. We then ...

The disclosure is the latest example of how the urgent push to release the files led to the government publicizing information it would normally keep under wraps. By Jonah E. Bromwich and William K.

A lot of programs are designed to only work with IP sockets, however very few of them allow to communicate via Unix domain sockets. Unix domain sockets usually are just files, so standard Unix file ...

NetApp, Inc. is a leading American technology company specializing in data management and storage solutions. Founded in 1992, NetApp has established itself as a key player in the cloud computing and ...

FOSDEM 2024 To move forwards, you have to let go of the past. In the 1990s that meant incompatibility, but it no longer has to. This article is the third based on The Reg FOSS desk's talk at FOSDEM ...