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Thursday, May 23rd, 2019
| Time |
Event |
| 12:24a |
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 23, 2019
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 23, 2019 is available. | | 12:59p |
Security updates for Thursday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (ffmpeg and firefox-esr), openSUSE (bzip2, chromium, and GraphicsMagick), Slackware (curl), SUSE (ucode-intel), and Ubuntu (curl and intel-microcode). | | 2:17p |
[$] New system calls: pidfd_open() and close_range()
The linux-kernel mailing list has recently seen more than the usual amount
of traffic proposing new system calls. LWN is endeavoring to catch up with
that stream, starting with a couple of proposals for the management of file
descriptors. pidfd_open() is a new way to create a "pidfd" file
descriptor that refers to a process in the system, while
close_range() is an efficient way to close many open descriptors
with a single call. |
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