Edd Barrett

@ebarrett
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Computer scientist, Programmer, OpenBSD Developer.
Puffy? Is that you?
It's 2023 and major pieces of software still encourage you to install directly into /usr...
Got xournal++ working on OpenBSD. Port to follow.
Broken sata connector... 4TB disk... Sob...
For a tickless kernel, SMM will wake up sleeping cores, often just so they can wait for the handler to finish.
SMI handlers can disrupt the OS' scheduler ticks, causing either delayed or (if the handler is long enough) missed ticks.

Well, that's interesting...

`sem_destroy()` on OpenBSD and Linux...

#OpenBSD

OK, that looks nicer. Code needs so much tidying. Also, ncurses is crusty... #OpenBSD
A sneak preview of something I'm working on in #OpenBSD...