Wiki http://blinkeye.ch/dokuwiki/ 2012-02-05T12:18:45+01:00 Wiki http://blinkeye.ch/dokuwiki/ http://blinkeye.ch/dokuwiki/lib/tpl/customised/images/favicon.ico text/html 2011-10-29T12:38:55+01:00 blinkeye Setting up the dm-crypt loopback partition - [Setting up the dm-crypt loopback partition] http://blinkeye.ch/dokuwiki/doku.php/linux/dm-crypt?rev=1319884735&do=diff <http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/lnxinfo/v3r0m0/index.jsp?topic=%2Fliaai%2Ftpm%2Fliaaitpmdmloop.htm> Setup Create 15GB file: $ dd if=/dev/zero of=/root/six bs=1M count=15000 conv=notrunc Setup loopback device, encryption and filesystem: text/html 2011-10-24T22:22:46+01:00 frank.wettstein Introduction http://blinkeye.ch/dokuwiki/doku.php/wettstein/concurrency_in_practice?rev=1319487766&do=diff Benefit of threads Risk of threads Safety Nothing bad ever happens. Race conditions are examples of unsafe programms. Livenes Something good eventually happens. A liveness failure occurs when an activity gets ino a state such that it is permanently unable to make forwardprogress. Deadlock, starvation and livelocks are examples.