The speed with which I can remember some obscure AIX partitioning-related fact during an incident, for example, is orders of magnitude faster than the speed with which I would figure out which of 12 marbles is slightly heavier than the others.

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xelxebar 6 hours ago | parent [-]

> I can remember some obscure AIX partitioning-related fact

Now you have my attention. I'd love to read about some of these trivia.

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prewett 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Not the GP, but I have one non-partioning AIX trivia I discovered by accident. Turns out that malloc(0) returns NULL on AIX, but non-null on Linux, SunOS, and Irix. (I was surprised multiple ways on that one!)

	▲	doubled112 5 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Sometimes I think "it's a UNIX system, I know this" but I've been caught by subtle differences before too. killall is very different between Linux and Solaris, for example. I would rather have not found this out on a client machine for the first time.
	▲	mjevans 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Now that you know, can you conceptualize reasons why each pattern might be a correct preference? Among those reasons, which would you prefer as a system? ^^^ THAT is how an Interview Question should work around this factoid.
	▲	shakna 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		That one has bitten me more than once