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A few observations about looking at TOP that I hear people asking are regarding what does the % mean, and why can I have over 100% when looking at CPU usage.
Well, its sort of simple. Load averages are the average of the load number for a process in a given period of time. A load number is merely a metric that is an average that takes into account CPU usage (or consumed time-slices) by the process. These could be:
PATH_DIR=/sys/class/net
INTF_WILD="e*"
Recently, we had to bypass a bootloader that had partition permissions and we needed to overwrite u-boot. Unfortunately, writing to this section of flash was not possible (invalid permissions/read-only), BUT, we could TFTP our own u-boot binary image to the device.
Here is a simple epoll example for polling keyboard events:
Create the signing keys
Then sign the file with the following command