Basil Crow’s Weblog

When the right stack pages survive in a core dump, they still contain the full arguments and environment. Here is how to recover them when ELF notes and journal metadata fall short.

A LeetCode-style problem about optimal line breaking, inspired by the Knuth-Plass algorithm used in TeX and LaTeX.

Security and compatibility often clash. Escape hatches offer the best of both worlds by being secure by default while providing a path for compatibility.