miniblog.

It's weird how even pure languages tend to treat the Unix execution model as ambient state. Are there any PLs that define a main function like this? fn main(args, stdin, stdout, env) -> exit code

Today I learnt that a continually blinking caps lock on Linux signifies a kernel panic: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/3840/the-caps-lock-and-scroll-lock-lights-are-flashing-and-everything-is-frozen (On the plus side, it's the first time I've encountered this despite using Linux for years.)

# mount /dev/MyVolGroup/root /mnt # mkdir /mnt/home # mount /dev/MyVolGroup/home /mnt/home Unix mounting conventions still feel strange to me. Creating a directory in one mount, only to mount something else at the same path. It feels weird to create a dir in the first mount.