Memory management in C and auto allocating sprintf() - asprintf()

Memory Management Memory management in C is viewed by some to be quite tricky. One needs to work with pointers that can point anywhere in me...

Copying code != Copying implementation

A little over a week ago, I wrote an article about some common porting mistakes for a new library - LibreSSL. I've since received multi...

FatELF Dead?

A while back, someone came up with a project called FatELF . I won't go into the exact details of all its trying to accomplish, but the ...

State of sound in Linux not so sorry after all

About two years ago, I wrote an article titled the " The Sorry State of Sound in Linux ", hoping to get some sound issues in Linux...

Implementing realpath() in C++

Before reading this post, please read the background in the previous post PATH_MAX simply isn't , as it covers important background, and...

PATH_MAX simply isn't

Many C/C++ programmers at some point may run into a limit known as PATH_MAX. Basically, if you have to keep track of paths to files/director...

Hashing out Hashing and Hash Libraries

This topic is one that I enjoy quite a bit, but unfortunately there is a lot of problems out there. I'm sure everyone has heard of hashi...