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Linux is a popular, open source operating system kernel. Linus Torvalds started development of the kernel in 1991.

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What does using pointer in Linux kernel imply?

generic memory addresses in the kernel are usually unsigned long , exploiting the fact that pointers and long integers are always the same size, at least on all the platforms currently supported by Linux
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Cross compiling Linux containers for embedded devices

I have recently been exposed to Docker and found it to be an excellent tool for making production deployments very less risky that what I was used to (coming from an embedded world, embedded as "Linux
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What is the motivation for casting a pointer into a integer?

I'm doing some changes in the Linux kernel code and have noticed a pointer being cast into integer. …
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