Comments for Airs - Ian Lance Taylor

Comment on Sudoku by RixiM

RixiM — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 20:25:21 +0000

http://www2.research.att.com/~gsf/sudoku/

Comment on Piece of PIE by Ian Lance Taylor

Ian Lance Taylor — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 06:06:18 +0000

vapier: You’re right, thanks for the correction.

Comment on Piece of PIE by vapier

vapier — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 04:28:26 +0000

i don’t think that last part is correct. the ldso does not ask the kernel to map the PIE. the kernel ELF binary format loader processes all the PT_LOAD’s for the executable ELF, and if it has a PT_INTERP, additionally loads that. then it sets the entry point based on that (to the interp if it has one, or to the executable).

Comment on Linkers part 8 by ohad

ohad — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 09:55:48 +0000

A great read, as always.

If this series was available as a book, I’d pay for it even though it’s freely available here.

just because it’s awesome.

Comment on Corporate Unions by bje

bje — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 20:09:43 +0000

Having worked for a multinational corporation, it became apparent to me that in recent decades, capital has gone global, but labour has not. It has made national unions toothless in these workplaces. If a single country arm of the workforce was to go on strike, for example, a very large company can work around the “inconvenience”, just as an employer can work around a single employee.

Global unions seem a huge stretch to me. There are very different attitudes to work, different employment conditions, different laws. Getting global union members to agree to anything would be like getting the UN to agree to anything.