Giri Mandalika
Principal Software Engineer
Recent Blogs
Python Lambda Functions - Quick Notes
Lambda functions: are anonymous functions with no function name but with function body or definition are useful when a small function is expected to be called once or just a few times are useful as arguments to a higher-order function that takes other functions as arguments For example, to filter ou...
Programming in C: Few Tidbits #8
1) Function Pointers Declaring Function Pointers Similar to a variable declared as pointer to some data type, a variable can also be declared to be a pointer to a function. Such a variable stores the address of a function that can later be called using that function pointer. In other words, function...
Oracle SuperCluster: Brief Introduction to osc-interdom
Target Audience: Oracle SuperCluster customers The primary objective of this blog post is to provide some related information on this obscure tool to inquisitive users/customers as they might have noticed the osc-interdom service and the namesake package and wondered what is it for at some point. Su...
Random Solaris & Shell Command Tips — kstat, tput, sed, digest
The examples shown in this blog post were created and executed on a Solaris system. Some of these tips and examples are applicable to all *nix systems. Digest of a File One of the typical uses of computed digest is to check if a file has been compromised or tampered. The digest utility can be used t...
Solaris 11: High-Level Steps to Create an IPS Package
Keywords: Solaris package IPS+Repository pkg 1 Work on Directory Structure Start with organizing the package contents (files) into the same directory structure that you want on the installed system. In the following example the directory was organized in such a manner that when the package was insta...