We thought we would mix things up a bit here and highlight our open source C library: libntech. I wanted to use libntech’s JSON code to write a minimal tool to parse, check and query JSON data. Using the various library functions related to files, json, strings, sequences and regexes helps …
In the latest version of the CFEngine network protocol (filestream - v4), we leveraged librsync for efficient file copying using their Streaming API. While implementing the file streaming in CFEngine, I found that the documentation on the Streaming API was a bit unclear. Thus, I created two example …
Editing and copying large files or large numbers of files is slow. For a configuration management tool, it is probably one of the slowest things we do, apart from waiting for other programs to finish or waiting for network communication. In this blog post, we look at how to copy files. More …
The license of our in-house C utility and compatibility library libntech was recently changed from GPLv3 to Apache License Version 2.0 which makes the library suitable for more projects thanks to the more permissive license. While GPLv3 practically required any project using libntech to be licensed …
Opening and reading files may cause your program to block indefinitely. In this blogpost we'll discuss how to work around this issue.
This is the second blog post in a short series about processes on UNIX-like systems. It is a followup to the previous post which focused on basic definitions, creation of processes and relations between them. This time we analyze the semantics of two closely related system calls that play major …
While working on the integration of CFEngine Build into Mission Portal we came to the point where we needed to start executing separate tools from our recently added daemon - cf-reactor. Although it may seem like nothing special, knowing a bit about the process creation and program execution …
Databases are great for data processing and storage. However, in many cases it is better or easier to work with data in files on a file system, some tools even cannot access the data in any other way. When a database (DB) is created in a database management system (DBMS) using a file system as its …
In this blog post we show how it is possible to run an arbitrary program, script, or execute arbitrary code in reaction to changes and generally events in a PostgreSQL database. Triggers Database management systems (DBMS) provide mechanisms for defining reactions to certain actions or, in other …
Software quality has been a topic and an area of interest since the dawn of software itself. And as software evolved so did the techniques and approaches to assuring its high quality. Better computers providing more computing power, bigger storage and faster communication have allowed software …
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