All articles tagged #libc

GoogleContainerTools' distroless base images are often mentioned as one of the ways to produce small(er), fast(er), and secure(r) containers. But what are these distroless images, really? Why are they needed? What's the difference between a container built from a distroless base and a container built from scratch? Let's take a deeper look.

How to on starting processes (mostly in Linux)

January 30, 2018 (Updated: August 19, 2021)

Linux / Unix,Programming

Do you want to run an executable file from your program? Or execute a shell command programmatically? Or maybe just parallelize your code? Have you read a lot of information regarding execve() functions family and fork() but still have a mess in your head? Then this article is for you.