I keep wondering how does a debugger work? Particulary the one that can be ‘attached’ to already running executable. I understand that compiler translates code to machine language, but then how does debugger ‘know’ what it is being attached to? 7 Answers 7
What does the Git index exactly contain, and what command can I use to view the content of the index? Thanks for all your answers. I know that the index acts as a staging area, and what is committed is in the index rather than the working tree. I am just curious about what an … Read more
There is a lot of code in one of our projects that looks like this: internal static class Extensions { public static string AddFoo(this string s) { if (s == null) { return “Foo”; } return $({s}Foo); } } Is there any explicit reason to do this other than “it is easier to make the … Read more
Could you please explain what the practical usage is for the internal keyword in C#? I know that the internal modifier limits access to the current assembly, but when and in which circumstance should I use it? 22 Answers 22 Utility or helper classes/methods that you would like to access from many other classes within … Read more
Coda Hale’s article “How To Safely Store a Password” claims that: bcrypt has salts built-in to prevent rainbow table attacks. He cites this paper, which says that in OpenBSD’s implementation of bcrypt: OpenBSD generates the 128-bit bcrypt salt from an arcfour (arc4random(3)) key stream, seeded with random data the kernel collects from device timings. I … Read more
