More importantly, "works on all flavors of linux I've tried" is a far cry from "portable". The majority of desktop Unix systems are not linux, but OS X. There are plenty of servers running other BSD flavors. And lots of old machines running commercial *nixes or OpenSolaris. Not to m...
Consider Unix, Linux, MacOS, Android and Windows operating systems. Consider the primary application of each in the marketplace. How does each OS implement threads? What is the difference between an associative entity and a transactional entity?
On Unix platforms, Oracle will typically set permissions so that only the oracle user and members of the dba Unix group can read the trace files. If you want anybody with a Unix login to be able to read the trace files, then you should set the following undocumented (but supported) initi...
System call is the way in which a computer program requests a service from the kernel of the operating system. It work like a service provider between user program and system software like operating system. System call allows the ...
"The art of command line" is all about getting good at using the command line interface (CLI) in Unix-like systems, like Linux. If you want to learn more, check out this Link Getting Started With linux Overview (Hardware Interaction) Kernel operating system Drivers System software Application...