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fefe.de
Personal blog · fefe.deprogrammingsecuritysystems
fefe.de is a personal blog at fefe.de about programming, security and systems. Since 2009, 62 different Hacker News readers have linked it 79 times, most often “Diet libc – a libc optimized for small size”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Most-linked posts?
- Diet libc – a libc optimized for small size6 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2016-11-29
- /ncp/5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2013-02-16
- Dietlibc – a Libc optimized for small size5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2010-10-01
- Gatling – a high performance web server5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2019-08-21
- /djb/4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2009-10-19
- Catching Integer Overflows in C4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2011-08-02
- Gatling – a high performance web server4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2009-04-06
- /minit/3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-07-20
- /know-your-compiler.pdf3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2009-11-06
- Please do not port software to Windows (2001)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-02-16
What Hacker News says?
A similar LAN or virtual network oriented tool: https://github.com/zerotier/toss ... and another less magical one: http://www.fefe.de/ncp/
Comment linking /ncp/
on “Magic-Wormhole – Get things from one computer to another, safely”Submitted The Dark Side of C++ (2007) [pdf] as a story · 95 points
HN discussionThis reminds me of the great tool http://www.fefe.de/ncp/ , which seems like the same thing only without the cryptographic authentication!
Comment linking /ncp/
on “Magic-Wormhole – Get things from one computer to another, safely”Submitted Dietlibc – a Libc optimized for small size as a story · 88 points
HN discussiongatling [0] is also pretty small and fast, it also can do FTP and SMB if you need that. [0] https://www.fefe.de/gatling/
Comment linking /gatling/
on “This Blog is now hosted on a GPS/LTE modem”Submitted Catching Integer Overflows in C as a story · 81 points
HN discussionSome of the reasons that he mentions for avoiding the standard library could also be mitigated by using another library like dietlibc (I played around with it back in the day, last release seems to be from 2013): https://www.fefe.de/dietlibc/
Comment linking /dietlibc/
on “Writing C software without the standard library”Submitted The Dark Side of C++ (2007) as a story · 76 points
HN discussionConsidering the broad range of such softwares that already exist , written by people such as Felix von Leitner, Gerrit Pape, Laurent Bercot, and so on, why do you think that Linus Torvalds is the person to write one? Or needs to write one? * http://blog.darknedgy.net/technology/2015/09/05/0/ * http://skarnet.org/software/s6-linux-init/ * http://smarden.org/runit/runit-init.8.html * http://www.fefe.de/minit/ * https:…
Comment linking /minit/
on “Linus: “I no longer feel like I can trust ‘init’ to do the sane thing””Submitted Catching integer overflows in C as a story · 54 points
HN discussionOne man's trivial is another man's bother. I consider 30k (less than some images or the rather popular fonts) to be quite trivial for most purposes, and if it gives me a nicer syntax for common operations, it's probably worth it. On the other hand, I've seen actual backlash against printf implementations in libs and the bloat they're causing, never mind potential bugs [1]. So there you go. [1]: https://www.fefe.de/d…
Comment linking /dietlibc/FAQ.txt
on “jQuery 3.0 Released”Submitted Gatling – a high performance web server as a story · 36 points
HN discussionOn a somewhat related note, I always thought dietlibc was a pretty cool project (basically trying to get libc to be very tiny). It's been a pretty long time since I browsed the code but I remember it being quite elegant. https://www.fefe.de/dietlibc/
Comment linking /dietlibc/
on “Tiny C Compiler”Submitted Please do not port software to Windows (2001) as a story · 32 points
HN discussioni think fefes cms is written in C... [1] [1] http://www.fefe.de/poweredby.html
Comment linking /poweredby.html
on “To become a good C programmer (2011)”Submitted nowindows as a story · 20 points
HN discussionIf that's your use case then have a look at ncp: http://www.fefe.de/ncp/ From the site: '"ncp" is a utility for copying files in a LAN. It has absolutely no security or integrity checking, no throttling, no features, except one: you don't have to type the coordinates of your peer.'
Comment linking /ncp/
on “Netcat – The swiss army knife of networking”Submitted Please do not port software to Windows as a story · 8 points
HN discussionThere is a somewhat related text by Fefe: http://www.fefe.de/intof.html
Comment linking /intof.html
on “A Quiz About Integers in C”Submitted Diet Libc author pleads “Please do not port my software to Windows” as a story · 6 points
HN discussionMaybe Gatling fits your needs https://www.fefe.de/gatling/
Comment linking /gatling/
on “Developers fix multitude of vulnerabilities in Apache HTTP Server”Submitted Time to Market is not a good metric as a story · 5 points
HN discussionThanks for this Ryan. I'll reference this gist too. I remember starting with something like this early on (w/o your sysdef) but wanted argc, argv, envp and to separate syscall* from the startup code. Part of the reason I've started this is that libc suffers from bad design (in von Leitner's definition [0]). I find c0's & djb's APIs better designed [1][2]. *printf is a prime example of bad design. Heck, pretty much e…
Comment linking /djb/
on “Show HN: A minimal C runtime for Linux i386 and x86_64 in 87 SLOC of C”Submitted Writing Small and Fast Software (2001) [pdf] as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThere are also smaller implementations of libc, eg. http://www.fefe.de/dietlibc/
Comment linking /dietlibc/
on “Hello from a libc-free world”Submitted Writing Small And Fast Software (2001) [pdf] as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIf this is the nano version then let me share the pico alternatives with you: * BusyBox httpd [1] * thttpd [2] * Lwan Web Server [3] * gatling [4] I built and maintain a super tiny Docker image (~158KB) for serving static files [5]. My current implementation is based on Busybox httpd and scratch but I also tried out thttpd in the past, which worked well but came with a high memory footprint in some cases. thttpd was…
Comment linking /gatling/
on “Show HN: Nano-web – a low latency one binary webserver designed for serving SPAs”Submitted Time to Market is not a good metric as a story · 2 points
HN discussionYou can use DNS NOTIFY rather than sending an email. When the primary is updated, DNS NOTIFY will tell each secondary about the change. DNS NOTIFY is standardised in: https://tools.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1996.txt BIND 8+ supports it by default, according to http://docstore.mik.ua/orelly/networking_2ndEd/dns/ch10_03.h... There is a perl script to achieve the same thing in djbdns, according to http://www.fefe.de/djbdns/#noti…
Comment linking /djbdns/
on “How and why I run my own DNS servers”Submitted Time to Market is not a good metric as a story · 2 points
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