At the system level: Building blocks

I want to take some time to talk about the fundamental toolset that most programs that system administrators work with are built over.

The most important of these are the system calls. When we run strace to see exactly what a process is doing, we are watching this fundamental interaction between a program and its requests to the operating system, usually for access to resources controlled by the operating system.



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