List of FAQ questions§
This is a compilation of individual posts that were created in response to questions students had in the past about certain topics.
General Questions§
- How do I pull a basecode update?
- How do I set up my bash shell
- How do I set up ssh for git
- How do Unix environment variables work, and PATH in particular?
- How do Unix permissions work?
- How does the so-called shebang or (hash-bang) work?
- How should we use valgrind in CS3214
- Do we need to fix memory leaks
- Why can't I easily find the C standard online?
Processes, IPC, etc.§
- Real-world examples where catching SIGSEGV is useful
- What are named pipes?
- How do daemons work?
- What is raw and cooked mode?
- What's up with these weird Unix terms?
- How does signal delivery work?
- What is the "use case" of learning about async-signal-safety
Multithreading§
- How do thread ids work in Linux/Pthreads?
- What does atomicity mean?
- What exactly are hardware (or hyper-) threads?
- Is combining multithreading and multiprocessing useful?
- How do I interpret Helgrind's output?
- What is false sharing?