A friend posted the following pipeline to find all the firmware files for a set of Linux kernel modules: find /lib/modules/4.9.0-2-amd64/ -name '*.ko' | xargs modinfo -F firmware > /dev/null As an exercise in systems programming, I was curious how... (more…)

This RFC adds support for single-file bin packages in cargo.\nSingle-file bin packages are rust source files with an embedded manifest and a\nmain.\nThese files will be accepted by cargo commands as --manifest-path just like Cargo.toml files.\ncargo will ... (more…)

Rust is a multi-paradigm language of which one of the objectives is to challenge the conflict between high-level ergonomics and fine-grained memory management. Among the abundant constructions and features it proposes, some can enable the introduction of ... (more…)

Performance of a database system depends on many factors: hardware, configuration, database schema, amount of data, workload type, network latency, and many ... (more…)

The aim of the exercise is simple. Start with an empty vector of unsigned integers - as it does not implement the Copy Trait - and create different types of functions and closures to push a new number to the original vector. Now that the goal is set, let'... (more…)