Recently some people spread their non-existing knowledge about nscd (Name Service Cache Daemon) by claiming it ignores the TTL (time-to-live) value a DNS server returns. As far as I know this rampant ignorance is especially wide-spread in the ubuntu world. They claim that for this reason one has to…| udrepper.livejournal.com
Constantly people complain that the runtime does not catch their mistakes. They are hiding behind this requirement in the POSIX specification (for pthread_join in this case, also applies to pthread_kill and similar functions): The pthread_join() function shall fail if: [...] ESRCH No thread could…| udrepper.livejournal.com