System Software Discussions

Introduction If you take a look at the LLVM documentation , you might be surprised to see that different processor architectures have th...

Introduction The question in the title might seem very trivial to most. But you'd be surprised if you knew the extent of kernel bei...

Introduction Volatile is a memory access keyword in several languages which is much more complicated and confusing in practice then what...

Introduction If you are a software person you must have wondered how file recovery tools are able to find and recover deleted files on di...

Introduction Most computer science students learn that memory is paged in and out of main memory to hard disk depending on need, during t...

Introduction You might have noticed that a lot of websites serve their images as links to regular files, instead of storing them as a fie...

Introduction We had an interesting discussion with a colleague today. We were discussing what would happen if you rename a file to an exi...