Road Map

This is a quick list of where I’m aiming for.

• Become an expert in network coding (for some definition of ‘expert’)
  • Understand glibc networking functions
    • Build a local version of glibc with debug symbols and optimisations disabled so I can step into it with gdb
    • getaddrinfo()
      • Memory management of returned struct addrinfo list
        • freeaddrinfo()
          • Does freeaddrinfo() free up memory allocated to returned struct addrinfo list when it fails?
            • freeaddrinfo() doesn’t directly call free() on the ai_addr member of struct addrinfo
  • Become a maintainer for ping

And the habits I’ll use to get there.

• Check stack overflow for interesting questions to answer
• Work on an article every day