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Tuesday, January 21st, 2020
| Time |
Event |
| 12:52a |
[$] process_madvise(), pidfd capabilities, and the revenge of the PIDs Once upon a time, there were few ways for one process to operate upon another after its creation; sending signals and ptrace() were about it. In recent years, interest in providing ways for processes to control others has been on the increase, and the kernel's process-management API has been expanded accordingly. Along these lines, the process_madvise() system call has been proposed as a way for one process to influence how memory management is done in another. There is a new process_madvise() series which is interesting in its own right, but this series has also raised a couple of questions about how process management should be improved in general. | | 3:41p |
Security updates for Tuesday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (openconnect), Fedora (e2fsprogs, glibc, kernel, and nss), openSUSE (Mesa, php7, and slurm), Oracle (.NET Core, java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-11-openjdk, and thunderbird), Red Hat (java-1.8.0-openjdk, openvswitch, and openvswitch2.11), Scientific Linux (java-1.8.0-openjdk), SUSE (java-11-openjdk, libssh, libvpx, Mesa, and thunderbird), and Ubuntu (libbsd and samba). | | 3:48p |
Roose: PHP in 2020 Brent Roose argues that it is time to take another look at PHP. " In this post, I want to
look at this bright side of PHP development. I want to show you that,
despite its many shortcomings, PHP is a worthwhile language to learn. I
want you to know that the PHP 5 era is coming to an end. That, if you want
to, you can write modern and clean PHP code, and leave behind much of the
mess it was 10 years ago." | | 7:04p |
Wine 5.0 released Wine 5.0 has been released. The main highlights are builtin modules in PE format, multi-monitor support, XAudio2 reimplementation, and Vulkan 1.1 support. Wine is capable of running Windows applications on Linux and other POSIX-compliant systems. |
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