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Recent LWN.net kernel articles
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recent articles in this area include:
| January 16, 2025 | The many names of commit 55039832f98c |
| January 14, 2025 | Modifying another process's system calls |
| January 9, 2025 | Page-table hardening with memory protection keys |
| December 30, 2024 | The Homa network protocol |
| December 20, 2024 | Process creation in io_uring |
| December 13, 2024 | Facing the Git commit-ID collision catastrophe |
| December 13, 2024 | Providing precise time over the network |
| December 12, 2024 | A last look at the 4.19 stable series |
| December 6, 2024 | Freezing out the page reference count |
| December 4, 2024 | The return of RWF_UNCACHED |
| December 2, 2024 | The rest of the 6.13 merge window |
| November 27, 2024 | The kernel's command-line commotion |
| November 21, 2024 | The beginning of the 6.13 merge window |
| November 18, 2024 | Development statistics for 6.12 |
| November 15, 2024 | Two approaches to tightening restrictions on loadable modules |
| November 14, 2024 | Dancing the DMA two-step |
| November 7, 2024 | The trouble with struct sockaddr's fake flexible array |
| October 28, 2024 | AutoFDO and Propeller |
| October 18, 2024 | The long road to lazy preemption |
| October 16, 2024 | Using LKMM atomics in Rust |
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