![]() ![]() ![]() Turn round and look at her, Rebus commanded. He was staring at the pavement, the thin black cord from a pair of earphones dribbling down his neck. ![]() But on the opposite pavement she half-turned, saw him watching her, waved her hand in acknowledgment. One final wave, and she turned away from him, head moving as she checked the evening traffic, crossing the road without looking back. Maybe the three of us…?’īy which she meant Ned Farlowe, her boyfriend. She'd even tried to pay for the pizza, arguing that she'd eaten half while he'd chewed on a single slice. She was twenty-four and independent didn't need the gesture and certainly wouldn't take the money. He thought of offering her some money wasn't that what fathers did? – but she'd only laugh. Rebus put his hands in his pockets, felt folded banknotes beneath his handkerchief. 'Dead people don't wake up, 'she said, hugging Pa Broon. There's nothing the witches and evil queens can do about that.’ 'Daddy,' she said, 'what if I fall asleep and don't wake up? Like Snow White or Sleeping Beauty?’ He tucked her in, started to read her a story. 'Come on, pet, I'll take you back to bed.’ But the girl ran to her,father, wrapped herself around his legs. The mother crouched down, opening her arms. She was peering round the doorway, thumb in her mouth. She was holding her teddy bear, Pa Broon, by one well-chewed ear. ![]() `You know bloody well!' 'I'm working my arse off for the three of us!' 'Don't give me that crap.’Īnd then they saw her. `Look, if your bloody job's so precious…’ `I went to Scotland and found nothing there that looks like Scotland ' `If all time is eternally present All time is unredeemable.’ The ninth book in the Inspector Rebus series, 1998 Before he can act the waters are muddied further when the war criminal is found hanging in Warriston Cemetery. But the Crime Squad are forced to bring him back to the present day when a young upstart gangster, Tommy Telford, muscles in on Big Ger Cafferty's turf and Rebus's local knowledge becomes essential to the efforts to shut down Telford's business as a drug dealer, pimp and extortionist. His immediate superiors are more than happy to have him tucked away in a quiet backwater for several months looking into ancient history. Rebus is buried under a pile of paperwork generated by his investigations into a possible war criminal resident in Edinburgh. Internals Region-based memory management String handling Object system Methods Reference counting Marshalling Encodings for marshalling Documentation format: XXML, an XML surface syntax 8.Genre: thriller The Hanging Garden Ian RankinĪ tense and complicated thriller featuring inspector John Rebus from the acclaimed author of BLACK AND BLUE. Man pages plash - Shell for running programs with minimum authority plash-opts - Set options in the Plash shell exec-object - Creates executable objects for use under Plash plash-chroot - chroot program, for use under Plash plash-socket-publish - Make a Plash object reference available via a named socket plash-socket-connect - Get a reference to a Plash object that was exported to a socket plash-run-emacs - Run XEmacs and then grant it access to individual files 7. Protocols and interfaces Protocol for messages with file descriptors Object-capability protocol Closing the connection Conventions Future extensions PLASH_COMM_FD and PLASH_CAPS fs_op object Filesystem objects: files, directories and symlinks Executable objects conn_maker object fs_op_maker object 6. Executable objects Introduction Applying POLA to argument files and other files Invocations between programs Examples Notes The process replacement behaviour Discovering file descriptors Garbage collection Limitations Linux, job control, and TTY file descriptors Job control exec-object limitations Shell limitations 5. Plash's restricted execution environment Architecture overview Symbolic links Semantics Implementation Remaining problems Parent directories: the semantics of dot-dot using dir_stacks Directory file descriptors 4. The Plash shell Overview of differences from Bash Bourne shell features missing from Plash Installation endowment Enabling access to the X11 Window System Job control Shell scripts 3. ![]()
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