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> I can remember some obscure AIX partitioning-related fact Now you have my attention. I'd love to read about some of these trivia.
by xelxebar 1mo ago
> I can remember some obscure AIX partitioning-related fact
Now you have my attention. I'd love to read about some of these trivia.
- prewett 1mo agoNot the GP, but I have one non-partioning AIX trivia I discovered by accident. Turns out that malloc(0) returns NULL on AIX, but non-null on Linux, SunOS, and Irix. (I was surprised multiple ways on that one!)
- doubled112 1mo agoSometimes I think "it's a UNIX system, I know this" but I've been caught by subtle differences before too. killall is very different between Linux and Solaris, for example. I would rather have not found this out on a client machine for the first time.
- pjmlp 1mo agoAnother AIX different that caughts folks off guard, it uses COFF primarly, and its dynamic library models is closer to Windows, OS/2, Symbian, than classical UNIX with ELF. Including the existence of import libraries, linker export files, and lazy dynamic loading of symbols.
- shakna 1mo agoThat one has bitten me more than once
- mjevans 1mo agoNow that you know, can you conceptualize reasons why each pattern might be a correct preference? Among those reasons, which would you prefer as a system? ^^^ THAT is how an Interview Question should work around this factoid.
- arcfour 1mo agoGah, I can't remember what the specific trivia was now (ironically), just that some disk wasn't mounting and something in the fstab stuck out to me that I then looked up in the manpages and confirmed was wrong. (I wasn't even the AIX guy, I was just the sysadmin of an app that ran on AIX.)