I once asked a software developer at work how many times we called fork() in our code. I’ll admit, it was a very large project, but I expected the answer to be — at most — two digits. The developer ...

Some say a set of regular expressions comprises a domain-specific language, or DSL; essentially, a mini-programming language. A full-blown programming language like Java or Python can do many things, ...

Say I want to allow only hosts from a specifc fqdn with names matching a certain criterium, e.g. *appname*.company.com. On Sol 10, /etc/hosts.allow doesn't seem to recognize such glob pattern. Do I ...