US Patent 9,830,329 Issued
US Patent 9,830,329 issued November 28, 2017. It is about a technique for utilizing a pre-existing tunneling mechanism to invoke remote functionality. The original inspiration for this was the need to communicate from a component on a client system to utilize functionality available on the server. The first case for this was when I wanted […]
Of file handles and implicit offsets
My current research direction (which is wandering a bit, as is common with research) has forced me to look as some of the vagaries of the POSIX interface. One of these is this intriguing decision to incorporate a piece of file descriptor specific state for the “file pointer” (note that in Windows there is an […]
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