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LWN .net News from the source Content Weekly Edition Archives Search Kernel Security Events calendar Unread comments LWN FAQ Write for us menu User: Password: | | Subscribe / Log in / New account [Posted July 28, 2023 by corbet] The Python Steering Council has announced its intent to accept PEP 703 (Making the Global Interpreter Lock Optional in CPython) , with initial support possibly showing up in the 3.13 release. There are still some details to work out, though. We want to be very careful with backward compatibility. We do not want another Python 3 situation, so any changes in third-party code needed to accommodate no-GIL builds should just work in with-GIL builds (although backward compatibility with older Python versions will still need to be addressed). This is not Python 4. We are still considering the requirements we want to place o...

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LWN .net News from the source Content Weekly Edition Archives Search Kernel Security Distributions Events calendar Unread comments LWN FAQ Write for us menu User: Password: | | Subscribe / Log in / New account From : Sebastian Krahmer <krahmer-IBi9RG/b67k-AT-public.gmane.org> To : oss-security-ZwoEplunGu1jrUoiu81ncdBPR1lH4CV8-AT-public.gmane.org Subject : Headsup: systemd v228 local root exploit (CVE-2016-10156) Date : Tue, 24 Jan 2017 09:55:01 +0100 Message-ID : <20170124085501.GA9322@suse.de> Archive-link : Article Hi This is a heads up for a trivial systemd local root exploit, that was silently fixed in the upstream git as: commit 06eeacb6fe029804f296b065b3ce91e796e1cd0e Author: .... Date: Fri Jan 29 23:36:08 2016 +0200 basic: fix touch() creating files with 07777 mode mode_t is unsigned, so MODE_INVALID < 0 ...

LWN .net News from the source Content Weekly Edition Archives Search Kernel Security Distributions Events calendar Unread comments LWN FAQ Write for us Edition Return to the Kernel page menu User: Password: | Log in / New account From : Octavian Purdila <octavian.purdila@intel.com> To : linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Subject : [RFC PATCH 00/28] Linux Kernel Library Date : Tue, 3 Nov 2015 22:20:31 +0200 Message-ID : <1446582059-17355-1-git-send-email-octavian.purdila@intel.com> Cc : linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, thehajime@gmail.com, Octavian Purdila <octavian.purdila@intel.com> Archive-link : Article , Thread LKL (Linux Kernel Library) is aiming to allow reusing the Linux kernel code as extensively as possible with minimal effort and reduced maintenance overhead. Examples of how LKL can be used are: creating userspace applications ...

Not logged in Log in now Create an account Subscribe to LWN Weekly Edition Return to the Kernel page Recent Features Reservations for must-succeed memory allocations LWN.net Weekly Edition for March 12, 2015 GitHub unveils its Licenses API Allowing small allocations to fail A GPL-enforcement suit against VMware Printable page LC First row - content links Weekly edition Kernel Security Distributions Contact Us Search Second row: navigation links Archives Calendar Subscribe Write for LWN LWN.net FAQ Sponsors [Posted October 22, 2002 by corbet] This article is part of the LWN Porting Drivers to 2.5 series . Linus and numerous other kernel developers dislike the ioctl() system call, seeing it as an uncontrolled way of adding new system calls to the kernel. Putting new files into /proc is also discouraged, since that area i...

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Not logged in Log in now Create an account Subscribe to LWN Recent Features LWN.net Weekly Edition for September 25, 2014 Adobe releases source code for OpenType font-development tools Schneier on incident response LWN.net Weekly Edition for September 18, 2014 X and SteamOS Printable page LC First row - content links Weekly edition Kernel Security Distributions Contact Us Search Second row: navigation links Archives Calendar Subscribe Write for LWN LWN.net FAQ Sponsors November 12, 2013 This article was contributed by Paul E. McKenney, Mathieu Desnoyers, and Lai Jiangshan User-space RCU The traditional way of implementing a hash table is to have an array of linked lists. However, user-space RCU instead uses a split-ordered list, which provides a lock-free RCU-protected resizable hash table. The resulting algorithms are...

Not logged in Log in now Create an account Subscribe to LWN Recent Features LWN.net Weekly Edition for September 11, 2014 A common Markdown LWN.net Weekly Edition for September 5, 2014 LuneOS tries to keep webOS alive Supporting filesystems in persistent memory Printable page LC First row - content links Weekly edition Kernel Security Distributions Contact Us Search Second row: navigation links Archives Calendar Subscribe Write for LWN LWN.net FAQ Sponsors [Posted January 31, 2007 by corbet] From : Matt Mackall <mpm-AT-selenic.com> To : Chris Rankin <rankincj-AT-yahoo.com> Subject : Re: 2.6.18-stable release plans? Date : Thu, 25 Jan 2007 15:04:29 -0600 Cc : Mark Rustad <mrustad-AT-gmail.com>, Alan <alan-AT-lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, linux-kernel-AT-vger.kernel.org Archive-link : Article , Thread On Wed, Ja...