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7 mentions on Hacker News by 1 person: 0 stories, 7 comments · first 2013-12-28 · latest 2020-10-26

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  1. …API which has changed under us a few times. In nbdkit we do a lot of language embedding ( https://github.com/libguestfs/nbdkit/tree/master/plugins ) including Tcl, Lua, Python and many others.
    comment by rwmj · 2020-10-26 · in Why I'm Tcl-Ish
  2. We have a nice macro for acquiring locks that only applies to the scope: https://github.com/libguestfs/nbdkit/blob/e58d28d65bfea3af36... You end up with code like this: https://github.com/libguestfs/nbdkit/blob/e58d28d65bfea3af36... It's…
    comment by rwmj · 2020-04-14 · in Tell HN: C Experts Panel – Ask us anything about C
  3. …with two of the xoshiro generators. These are actually faster than rand() with nicer properties. https://github.com/libguestfs/nbdkit/blob/master/common/incl... http://xoshiro.di.unimi.it/ Edit: Having read the full article now, he seems…
    comment by rwmj · 2019-05-01 · in Looking for Entropy in All the Wrong Places
  4. …However I've not needed to write anything as large as this maze-solver. It's text hacks like: https://github.com/libguestfs/nbdkit/blob/b8d80d3df90eaa32ef...
    comment by rwmj · 2019-01-08 · in Maze-solving algorithm implemented in sed
  5. …you can still use it like tftp by copying /dev/nbd0 to a ram disk at boot). It also supports TLS. https://github.com/libguestfs/nbdkit https://github.com/libguestfs/nbdkit/blob/master/plugins/flo...
    comment by rwmj · 2018-12-03 · in QEMU Advent Calendar: A surprise disk image each day until Christmas
  6. …including qemu-nbd. For reference here's my implementation of this which (I think) gets it right: https://github.com/libguestfs/nbdkit/blob/master/src/sockets...
    comment by rwmj · 2017-02-19 · in BSD socket API revamp
  7. …http://git.annexia.org/?p=pxzcat.git;a=summary I also wrote a random access program for xz files: https://github.com/libguestfs/nbdkit (in the plugins/xz subdirectory)
    comment by rwmj · 2013-12-28 · in Happy new year and goodbye bzip2