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…essentially a sorted list of arguments for the mmap system call. This is Linux kernel's ELF loader: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/fs/binfmt_elf.... It basically just mmaps in the PT_LOAD segments of the ELF file, copies…

comment by matheusmoreira · 2025-04-30 · in Path Isn't Real on Linux

…call wrappers for more efficient access. The vDSO is a documented stable Linux kernel interface: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/... It's just a perfectly normal ELF shared object that the kernel maps into the…

comment by matheusmoreira · 2025-04-30 · in Path Isn't Real on Linux

…user space and kernel is quite clear: the system call layer. It is stable and well documented. https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/... System libraries like glibc are not part of the kernel, they are just components…

comment by matheusmoreira · 2025-04-30 · in Path Isn't Real on Linux

…of trivia about the shebang support in Linux is that is possible to build the kernel without it. https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/fs/Kconfig.bin... config BINFMT_SCRIPT tristate "Kernel support for scripts starting with #!"…

comment by khrbtxyz · 2025-04-30 · in Path Isn't Real on Linux

…effort. Still worth it compared to the alternative of writing a linux kernel driver though! [0]: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/bc895e8b2a64e502fbb... [1]: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/bc895e8b2a64e502fbba7...

comment by roblabla · 2025-04-23 · in Why Does My eBPF Program Work on One Kernel but Fail on Another?

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story by amosoraptor · 2025-04-21 · 0 comments

…his position on this topic? Well, he's not a fan of GitHub pull request as per the last decade. https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17#issuecomment-56546...

comment by konimex · 2025-04-15 · in Important open source projects should not use GitHub (2020)

…seems to be actively contributing in GitHub for the Linux kernel repository (also created by him): https://github.com/torvalds/linux Anyone has seen his position on this topic?

comment by miloc_c · 2025-04-15 · in Important open source projects should not use GitHub (2020)

…Coe's ratio: https://people.cs.vt.edu/~naren/Courses/CS3414/assignments/p... (3rd page) Linux code: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/b0cb56cbbdb4754918c28...

comment by rwmj · 2025-03-24 · in Intel: A Bug and a Pro

…e.g. the `squash_the_stupid_serial_number` name did actually exist before the cregited commit: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/0a488a53d7ca46ac638... (Perhaps this could be related to there being multiple function implementations…

comment by follower · 2025-03-23 · in Cregit-Linux: how code gets into the kernel

…only pointing out that it hasn’t happened in practice. Also check the Android Binder code before (C https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/androi... ) and after (Rust - https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/nat…

comment by nindalf · 2025-03-13 · in I stopped everything and started writing C again

…remove GPL as a factor ? No reason it must? AFAIK all Rust for Linux code is GPL2. For example see: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/rust/kernel/al... If some was or were to be licensed as MIT code, there is also plenty of…

comment by mustache_kimono · 2025-03-10 · in Rewriting essential Linux packages in Rust

…email client. There are some hints regarding email clients here, though focused on sending patches: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/...

comment by layer8 · 2025-03-06 · in Git without a forge

…to the Linux kernel even references OpenBSD pledge(2)/unveil(2) as a source of inspiration. https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/17ae69aba89dbfa2139... https://lore.kernel.org/linux-security-module/20210422154123...

comment by brynet · 2025-02-23 · in OpenBSD Innovations

…And you can see under samples/rust that only a kbuild-style Makefile is provided: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/master/samples/rust

comment by cozzyd · 2025-02-21 · in Greg K-H: "Writing new code in Rust is a win for all of us"

…the kernel's cgroup writeback accounting features are enabled / disabled based on this code: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/c291c9cfd76a8fb92ef3d...

comment by dasl · 2025-02-14 · in Linux kernel cgroups writeback high CPU troubleshooting

…a different board on a soc that already works? Welcome to the world of writing this kind of things: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/arch/arm64/boo... and compiling the kernel from some dude's branch instead of going with…

comment by Muromec · 2025-02-09 · in RISC-V Mainboard for Framework Laptop 13 is now available

…if he feels like it. What he did, and this entire thread is about, is he resigned as a maintainer : https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/1b3291f00013c86a9bb... So the title is factually correct. But I wouldn't be surprised if he tries…

comment by tredre3 · 2025-02-08 · in Asahi Linux lead developer Hector Martin resigns from Linux kernel

…about your comment. It adds rust/kernel/dma.rs, not kernel/dma. That is, it adds that file here: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/master/rust/kernel not here: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/master/kernel/dma

comment by steveklabnik · 2025-02-07 · in Hector Martin – [Patch] Maintainers: Remove Myself

…but if I say that I run Linux, there’s an assumption that I’m running something compiled from https://github.com/torvalds/linux - I.e. there is a central space. I’ve used git and perforce in anger for a decade, in teams of 1 to 150+ (with…

comment by maccard · 2025-02-05 · in Beej's Guide to Git

Nitpick: There are actually a handful Rust drivers in-tree, e.g. https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/net/ph... Though, I think all of them are direct ports of existing drivers.

comment by Dagonfly · 2025-02-04 · in Resistance to Rust abstractions for DMA mapping

…comment, it seems like it might sorta be supported in modern linux, possibly just read only though: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/master/fs/befs

comment by buildbot · 2025-01-23 · in TMSU: Command-line tool for applying tags and viewing virtual tagged filesystem

…the intentions are the pull requests/issues around it. Take a single commit from the Linux kernel: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/08bd5b7c9a2401faabd... It doesn't tell me "add function X, Y and boolean flag Z". It tells us…

comment by Draiken · 2025-01-23 · in Ask HN: Is anyone doing anything cool with tiny language models?

> Indeed where the DRM error message comes from https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/ffd294d346d185b70e28b ... That's for compact flash cards. Based on the kernel message from the StackExchange post we can tell it isn't a CF. So it's not…

comment by bdd · 2025-01-20 · in What does "supports DRM and may not be fully accessible" mean for SATA SDDs?

…ship with this enabled for movie content management. Indeed where the DRM error message comes from https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/ffd294d346d185b70e28b... > CPRM may make this media unusable CPRM? > Content Protection for…

comment by Maxious · 2025-01-20 · in What does "supports DRM and may not be fully accessible" mean for SATA SDDs?

…command line parameter to be passed to allow issuing them. (kernel source reference: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/v6.12/drivers/ata/lib... ), which has _nothing to do_ with the trusted platform module TPM, just another TLA clash.…

comment by bdd · 2025-01-20 · in What does "supports DRM and may not be fully accessible" mean for SATA SDDs?

…the linux kernel itself actually also looks for `/etc/init` before it even looks for `/bin/init` https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/4a5df37964673effcd9f8...

comment by NekkoDroid · 2025-01-13 · in The history and use of /etc/glob in early Unixes

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story by markus_zhang · 2025-01-09 · 7 comments

…that didn't get added until they contributed support for the Deck controller in these drivers : https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/hid/hi...

comment by ThatPlayer · 2025-01-08 · in Lenovo Officially Announces the Legion Go S Handheld with SteamOS

Including Linux kernel https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/include/linux/...

comment by fuhsnn · 2025-01-06 · in C: Simple Defer, Ready to Use

Final boss: https://github.com/torvalds/linux Error message: Repository is too large (>200k tokens) for analysis. Claude 3.5 Sonnet's max context length is 200k tokens. Current size: 1334798 tokens. Cool project though! Kudos!

comment by Minervaskell · 2024-12-27 · in Show HN: Instantly visualize any codebase as an interactive diagram

…working program that prints out the ASCII table [2] as part of my Ghidra extension test suite. [1] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/master/tools/include/... [2] https://github.com/boricj/ghidra-delinker-extension/tree/mas...

comment by boricj · 2024-12-26 · in A Simple ELF

…PCs need a different one than the default in order to make sure everything is properly reset. [1]: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/9b2ffa6148b1e4468d08f...

comment by kyrofa · 2024-12-25 · in When power cycling your (x86) server isn't enough to recover it

It did not digest https://github.com/torvalds/linux ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

comment by dim13 · 2024-12-06 · in Show HN: Replace "hub" by "ingest" in GitHub URLs for a prompt-friendly extract

…unaware of the recent cleanup attribute infrastructure submitted on the c side of the kernel: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/include/linux/... Zig is a fun and interesting language in its own right, there’s really no need…

comment by raggi · 2024-12-02 · in RAII and the Rust/Linux Drama

…: static void check_hung_task(struct task_struct *t, unsigned long timeout) https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/9f16d5e6f220661f73b36... static void check_hung_uninterruptible_tasks(unsigned long timeout) https://github.com/torvald

comment by westurner · 2024-11-24 · in Linux 6.13 will report the number of hung tasks since boot

Read the source Luke: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/tty/vt...

comment by belter · 2024-11-21 · in ANSI Escape Sequences Cheatsheet

…e.g. typedef int read_block_fn(void *context, u8 *buf, unsigned int block, size_t len); https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/0a9b9d17f3a781dea03ba...

comment by khrbtxyz · 2024-11-14 · in C Gibberish to English

…the syscall interface are not considered derivative works and that GPL does not apply to them: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/LICENSES/excep...

comment by unmole · 2024-11-07 · in Linux Syscall Support

…OP. Their x64_64 arch support is here, which looks simple enough, putting things into registers: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/tools/include/... The non-arch-specific callers which use this are here, which also look…

comment by jwatzman · 2024-11-07 · in Linux Syscall Support

…one to write C software that completely bypass libc, but instead directly operate through syscalls. https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/master/tools/include/... A sample use-case? I was developing an Erlang-like actor platform that…

comment by sph · 2024-11-07 · in Linux Syscall Support

29 patches: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/compare/master...edera-dev...

comment by transpute · 2024-11-04 · in HardenedBSD Feature Comparison with OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD

Curiously, I can't find this message in recent kernels, it was patched out in 2018: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/9d7c249a1ef9bf0d569... . Is it being re-added by distros or something? In terms of how it causes the issue, I…

comment by rcxdude · 2024-10-28 · in Debugging audio artifacts caused by... a serial port?

…it did have a copyright header, but certainly not one that included a record of every change. https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/init/calibrate... So it doesn't look like this is peculiar to v2. But it does seem like people…

comment by tempfile · 2024-10-28 · in GoLic, injects license into source code files

I'm reasonably confident that it is upstream: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/androi... looks like the most obvious bit, though there are other pieces. (And now I'm curious why waydroid is maintaining their own dkms…

comment by yjftsjthsd-h · 2024-10-28 · in NewPipe on Linux, Using Android_translation_layer

…of other sus entries and pushed the commit. It's painfully obvious if you take a look at the file https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/MAINTAINERS , there are no mail.ru addresses left (it's a public email service akin to gmail).…

comment by joric · 2024-10-27 · in On Linux MAINTAINERS file removal of Russian developers

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/6e90b675cf942e50c70...

comment by leoh · 2024-10-23 · in Several Russian developers lose kernel maintainership status

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/6e90b675cf942e50c70...

comment by leoh · 2024-10-23 · in Linus Torvalds comments on the Russian Linux maintainers being delisted

…sources of this library [0] but the general syscall exception [1] may or may not apply. [0] e.g. https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/arch/x86/entry... [1] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/LICENSES/excep...

comment by account42 · 2024-10-21 · in Winamp deletes entire GitHub source code repo after a rocky few weeks

The file is groups.c from the Linux Kernel, circa sometime before 2015: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/8f6c5ffc8987f4f5b5a3e...

comment by BoppreH · 2024-10-18 · in Hacker Typer