March 2015 – TRUEANGLE

Looking into a few commands with python interactive shell

ABOUT PYTHON Python is an interpreted, high-level, general-purpose programming language. Created by Guido van Rossum and first released in 1991, Python has a design philosophy that emphasizes code readability, notably using significant whitespace. It provides constructs that enable clear programming on both small and large scales.[26] Van Rossum led the language community until stepping down …

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Hacking with strace on ls

$ls 1 $strace ls execve(“/bin/ls”, [“ls”], [/* 38 vars */]) = 0 brk(0) = 0x7ae000 access(“/etc/ld.so.nohwcap”, F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) mmap(NULL, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7fb78ab18000 access(“/etc/ld.so.preload”, R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open(“/etc/ld.so.cache”, O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3 fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=136302, …}) = 0 mmap(NULL, 136302, …

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