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Backing-up your important data with iCloud

19 weeks 5 days ago by san

With the new edition of the Apple iPhone having been announced on Tuesday, the iCloud is also coming under scrutiny. This is due to be made available to users on October 12th and is creating a lot of hype.


uCLinux (U-see-Linux) - An Intro

26 weeks 5 days ago by shahina

The Linux/Micro-controller project is a port of Linux to systems without Memory Management Unit. uClinux was originally created by D. Jeff Dionne and Kenneth Albanowski in 1998.


Program Compilation and linking

33 weeks 6 days ago by santosh

What are the steps involved in compiling a program? What exactly happens?


Dynamic linker and loader

33 weeks 6 days ago by santosh

The section and the coming ones will start explaining about the dynamic linker and loader. Dynamic linker links our program with the shared libraried (.so) when the program is warming up to run.


Program Sections

34 weeks 2 days ago by santosh

A program binary will be split into several sections. Each section has its own role in the execution of the program.


The exec system call

34 weeks 2 days ago by santosh

In the shell after a successful fork the child process will start to execute the command typed by the user, in our case the a.out file. This execution is started by the exec system call. The job of the exec system call is to overlay the calling process' address space with the executable image and give control to it.


The Birth Of a Process

35 weeks 18 hours ago by santosh

A process is born when a program is executed. So let us back-track a little more and start from the program birth. The program is born when there is a need for the programmer.


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