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Thursday, February 5th, 2015
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Event |
| 1:49a |
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for February 5, 2015
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for February 5, 2015 is available. | | 4:09p |
Thursday's security advisories Fedora has updated maradns (F21:
denial of service) and patch (F21: two vulnerabilities).
Ubuntu has updated file (three
vulnerabilities) and python-django (12.04,
10.04: regression in previous security fix). | | 10:43p |
GCC5 and the C++11 ABI (Red Hat developer blog) A post at the Red Hat developer blog looks at some of the changes that are coming with GCC5. Support for the C++11 standard means that some standard library classes need to change their ABI, notably std::basic_string and std::list. The post looks at how the change has been handled and what programmers need to do to deal with the changes. " The last time G++ went through an ABI change, back in the 3.x period, we changed the soname of libstdc++, which was widely regarded as a mistake. Changing the soname caused a lot of pain but is not sufficient to deal with changes in symbol ABIs: if you load multiple shared objects that depend on different versions of the library, you can still get clashes between different versions of the same symbol.
So the plan for this ABI change has been to leave the soname (and the existing binary interface) alone, and express the new ABI using different mangled names." | | 11:28p |
The World’s Email Encryption Software Relies on One Guy, Who is Going Broke (ProPublica) A lot of attention has been paid to this
ProPublica article describing Werner Koch's difficulties getting funding for his GnuPG work. But do note the update: " After this
article appeared, Werner Koch informed us that last week he was awarded a
one-time grant of $60,000 from Linux Foundation's Core Infrastructure
Initiative. Werner told us he only received permission to disclose it
after our article published. Meanwhile, since our story was posted,
donations have also poured into Werner Koch's website donation page to the
tune of nearly $50,000 so far." |
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