| ▲ | xelxebar 6 hours ago |
| > 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!) |
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| ▲ | 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 |
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