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A Curious Thing on Svbtle
Personal blog · curiousthing.orgprogrammingsystems
A Curious Thing on Svbtle is a personal blog at curiousthing.org about programming and systems. Since 2015, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Deep Dive into the SIGTTIN / SIGTTOU Terminal Access Control Mechanism in Linux”. The last post was in 2016, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's deep dive into the SIGTTIN and SIGTTOU job-control signals on Linux. One commenter cited it as an example of how crufty and complex Unix practice is.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A Curious Thing | Avid learner. Enthusiast Programmer. Aspiring Writer.
Most-linked posts?
- Deep Dive into the SIGTTIN / SIGTTOU Terminal Access Control Mechanism in Linux2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-11-24
What Hacker News says?
The Unix practice is anything but minimalist or modular, it's crazy, complex and very crufty (notice it's talking about 38400 baud!): http://curiousthing.org/sigttin-sigttou-deep-dive-linux
Comment linking /sigttin-sigttou-deep-dive-linux
on “Ask HN: Unix philosophy as a way to live”Submitted Deep Dive into the SIGTTIN / SIGTTOU Terminal Access Control Mechanism in Linux as a story · 16 points
HN discussionSubmitted Getting a First Patch into Docker as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Can it fork? as a story · 3 points
HN discussion