When upgrading my Ubuntu system my /etc/fstab got overwritten by the upgrade process. It seems that the new /etc/fstab file did not keep my old preferences for file systems. I didn’t notice this for some time but what I did notice was that my system was sluggish. After some time I recalled that I had [...]
As part of a crusade to find bugs in a C++ program running on a Solaris system I needed to find out information about all the threads belonging to a certain process. The program is written the way it is because you rarely need thread info about all threads running in a system but rather [...]