Kernel self tests [LWN net] lwn.net - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from lwn.net Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
For the execve() system call to execute a program by pathname, the Linux 6.8 kernel is set to land a new optimization to 'dramatically' speed-up PATH searches.
Debian discusses vendoring—again [LWN net] lwn.net - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from lwn.net Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The addition of the "/usr merge" feature has been something of longstanding mess
in the Debian world. It seems like a relatively innocuous change, which
is in keeping with the practice of most other distributions at this point; it effectively
eliminates the top-level /bin, /sbin, and /lib
directories in order to move their contents to the corresponding locations
under /usr. But ever since we first covered the feature introduction for
Debian more than six years ago it has a been a recurring series of
headaches within that community. Recent events have seemingly simply
prolonged the pain, though perhaps the end is in sight.
As Microsoft makes more progress with ReFS on Windows 11, Linux is also getting performance optimizations and improvements on some of its major file systems, namely, F2FS, Btrfs, and EXT4.