Escape from the Planet of X86

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 Today I revisited DAGs, because they came up in Computer Systems while looking at process graphs. Process graphs represent the partial orderings of program statements when learning about the fork function.
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+Today I also encountered the term integrated chipset which led me down the Google rabbit-hole search starting from the definition of chipset to north bridge and south bridge to identifying our school's Debian Server hardware with the command lshw, and also locating the .vdso files on the server(read the man page): related to vsyscall which was listed under the server's CPU capabilities(which has something to do with system calls optimization), and then finally vieweing the original return-into-libc overflow exploit from 1990's... 
