Is there a replacement for unistd.h for Windows (Visual C)?
I’m porting a relatively simple console program written for Unix to the Windows platform (Visual C++ 8.0). All the source files include “unistd.h”, … Read more
portability
Why does glibc’s strlen need to be so complicated to run quickly?
I was looking through the strlen code here and I was wondering if the optimizations used in the code are really needed? For … Read more
Why should I not #include ?
I posted a question with my code whose only #include directive was the following: #include <bits/stdc++.h> My teacher told me to do this, … Read more
Is there a portable way to get the current username in Python?
What is a portable way (e.g. for Linux and Windows) to get the current user’s username? Something similar to os.getuid() would be nice: … Read more
How do SO_REUSEADDR and SO_REUSEPORT differ?
The man pages and programmer documentations for the socket options SO_REUSEADDR and SO_REUSEPORT are different for different operating systems and often highly confusing. … Read more