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by diegocg 6y ago
This is probably part of networkd, which is a different daemon in charge of managing the network
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by diegocg 6y ago
"A Computer is a state machine. Threads are for people who can't program state machines" (Alan Cox)
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by diegocg 6y ago
That's not the fault of pipes, that's the fault of shells like bash. There are shells that deal with spaces and quotes perfectly fine.
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by diegocg 6y ago
With WSL, shouldn't it be possible to use any native Linux file system?
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by diegocg 6y ago
List of changes https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_5.7
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by diegocg 6y ago
These is the most up-to-date article I've seen on these matters https://lwn.net/Articles/787754/ https://lwn.net/Articles/629155/
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by diegocg 6y ago
The author seems to be planning to expand it to be usable as a generic way of doing asynchronous syscalls
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by diegocg 7y ago
It's more complex than that. Doing lazy allocation is not the problem, it's a common optimization. The problem comes when Linux does allow programs to (lazily) allocate a total amount of memory than is larger than the available RA
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by diegocg 7y ago
It is not delusion, but simple economics what makes it impossible to build new nuclear plants. The Obama administration granted permissions to build new plants, but few people were interested because fracking made gas cheaper - but even the
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by diegocg 7y ago
Phoronix loves clickbait titles. This kernel has not even been released, so if you use it on production, you will have to use the testing versions.
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Making WiFi Fast(lwn.net)
2 points by diegocg 7y ago|0 comments
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by diegocg 7y ago
Also, Rust code can have security bugs. Memory safety bugs are not the only kind of bugs.
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by diegocg 7y ago
Indeed. Even Microsoft decided to give up their own browser, and they have plenty of money.
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by diegocg 7y ago
Many of these crazy corner cases are the reason why I switched to fish. Eg, in fish all variables are arrays, so arguments are passed in the $argv array, and number of elements in the array is "count $argv" (in bash the number of
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by diegocg 7y ago
I don't know what his arguments are, and I don't have much of a clue about crypto, but perhaps his argument could go along the lines of "a secure algorithm shouldn't be secured just by increasing the number of rounds too
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by diegocg 7y ago
I don't think it's a coincidence that BLAKE3 has been released shortly after the latest SHA-1 news. Many SHA-1 users would rather avoid the performance impact of SHA-2/3.
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by diegocg 7y ago
This already exists (NOTIFY), but it's only used for master-slave setups (ie. a bunch of DNS servers serving some authoritative zone who want changes to be transmitted to all slaves ASAP) It would be interesting to (ab)use this mechani
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Linux 5.3 released, adds pidfd_open() for PID reuse, support umwait x86 instruct(kernelnewbies.org)
2 points by diegocg 7y ago|0 comments
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by diegocg 7y ago
"The most fundamental difference is thinking about the factory really as a product, as a quite vertically integrated product," said Musk. "It's treating it as more of an engineering and a technical problem as well,"
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Linux 5.2 released: list of changes(kernelnewbies.org)
102 points by diegocg 7y ago|4 comments
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by diegocg 7y ago
Facebook runs many thousands of btrfs filesystems every day, and it seems to works fine for them. They have helped to iron out a lot of bugs (and developed several features for it) I personally have been using it for maybe 7 years and it wo
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Efficient IO with io_uring [pdf](kernel.dk)
255 points by diegocg 7y ago|64 comments
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by diegocg 7y ago
In case someone is curious about the original presentation https://ozlabs.org/~rusty/ols-2003-keynote/img39.html
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Rusty's API Design Manifesto(sweng.the-davies.net)
1 points by diegocg 7y ago|1 comments
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by diegocg 7y ago
Related link: GCC 9: Link-time and inter-procedural optimization improvements https://hubicka.blogspot.com/2019/05/gcc-9-link-time-and-int...
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If you could redesign web browsers from scratch, what would you change?
5 points by diegocg 8y ago|7 comments
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by diegocg 8y ago
Jokes aside, I wonder how much time will pass until people start writing kernel drivers in BPF
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by diegocg 8y ago
Have you tried searching with verbatim mode? Without Verbatim mode, Google will try to be smart, eg match car when you search automotive, making spelling corrections, etc. Also, keep in mind that google removed the + operator, but you can a
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by diegocg 8y ago
Have you tried searching with verbatim mode? Also, keep in mind that google removed the + operator, but you can achieve the same results using double quotation.
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Virtio-fs: shared file system for virtual machines(lore.kernel.org)
224 points by diegocg 8y ago|60 comments

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