Month: August 2011
Security Software: Open Source vs Closed Source
I recently had a discussion on Google Plus about the relative merits of open source vs closed source security software.
Using fork() and exec() on Linux
In a previous post, I explained how the fork() and exec() system calls are used to create processes on Unix. In this
How a process is started in Unix
First, let us define what a process is. There are many definitions for the term process, but, for the purpose