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Unix

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Buffered vs Unbuffered I/O on Unix

TL;DR Buffered I/O batches data in user-space (or library) buffers and performs fewer, larger system calls. Great for throughput. Unbuffered I/O sends data …

Unix time values (the epoch)

Unix time (often called “the epoch”) is a simple way to represent a point in time: the number of seconds that have elapsed since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 …

tmux cheat sheet

This is a live document that I’m planning to maintain as I get more familiar with tmux. Key bindings All keybindings should be prefixed with a prefix key, …