I try to convert a SysVinit script used on Debian (and derivative distros such as Linux Mint and Ubuntu & Co.) to a systemd service to be used on Fedora or Arch Linux (and derivative distros su...

Say I have a go project that based on which OS, and in some cases which distro, I want to use say a Systemd client package vs an Upstart client package vs a sysv client package vs a launchd client ...

I'd like to know how to get this berkeley format output: $ size --format=berkeley /bin/ls text data bss dec hex filename 124042 4728 4832 133602 209e2 /bin/ls From this sysv format output: $ si...

In Python 3.8+, is it possible to check whether a numpy array is being stored in shared memory? In the following example, a numpy array sharedArr was created using the buffer of a multiprocessing.s...

Why does al contain the number of vector parameters in assembly? Why are vector parameters any different from normal parameters for the callee?

What are the differences between System V IPC and POSIX IPC ? Why do we have two standards ? How to decide which IPC functions to use ?

I have a RubyOnRails 3 project and I'm using rvm. I want to switch from a sysvinit script to supervisord. The sysvinit script can only start the software in case of an error it it gets killed and r...

Is there any way such that a writer process after sending a mesage to message queue using mq_send(), multiple reader processes can read the message using mq_receive(). I expect 1 write to mq and 1 ...

I'm digging through two legacy cross-compiled ARM Linux builds. There isn't much documentation other than "use this VM image to build the source" The only difference between the file command output...

How can I make use of the shmat(), shmdt(), shmctl(), shmget() calls from Python? Are they hidden somewhere in the standard library? Update0 I'm after System V bindings that can be found in the U...

I have a Java application, to start it I use java -jar myapp.jar To stop it I use CTRL+C. Now I need to convert that application to something that I can start with: /etc/init.d/myapp...