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Signals

signal	description
SIGSTOP	Stop the process.
SIGCONT	Start a stopped process

14 character filename limit

• http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3496
• http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V5/usr/sys/user.h
• http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V5/usr/sys/param.h

#define DIRSIZ  14

Processes

nice

Lowest priority is 20, highest is -19

Only super-user can increase nice value below 0

# Run at lowest priority
nice 20 <pid>

Filenames

The UNIX time-sharing system (1974) http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V5/usr/sys https://9p.io/7thEdMan/v7vol2a.pdf (p44) http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3496 http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V5/usr/sys/user.h see u_name http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V5/usr/sys/param.h see DIRSIZ

Unix

• https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/odd.html
• shasm

sudo

sudo

Syntax:

<user(group)> <host(group)> = (<list of users to run as|ALL>) <PASSWD|EXEC|SETENV|LOG_INPUT|LOG_OUTPUT>: <commands|ALL>

Systrace

http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace/

Used to limit system calls

Automatically generate systrace profile

systrace -A /path/to/executable

procfs

The process information pseudo-file system

Linux

man 5 proc

• /proc/partitions

  list of partitions