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Side-by-side Configuration on Linux/ELF

One of the best/worst Microsoft software innovations (great for compatibility; terrible for efficiency) has been Windows’ Side by Side Configuration. This allows, among other things, for different components of a program to have multiple versions of the C/C++ runtime libraries loaded into the same process.

Issues with time slicing

I was trying to see the effect of time slicing, and how it can consume significant amount of time. Actually, I was trying to divide a certain task into a number of threads and see the effect.

Shared FIFO file descriptor

is ok to open fifo with one FD and share it with multiple threads?
or is it better to have multiple fds opened for the same fifo and share these fds with the threads?
BTW, I’ll be doing write and read.