One proposed system call holds the promise of giving the userspace developer access to asynchronous network I/O, events such as file creation and deletion, and timer events. This week, the API goes ...

The sometimes-confusing array of virtualization technologies are likely to settle on a common I/O interface. There are always questions about adding yet another layer into the kernel, but the ...

Note: this article is a followup to Zack Brown's "Android Low Memory Killer—In or Out?" Linux kernel headers are the unstable, constantly-changing, internal API of the kernel. This includes internal ...

On Linux kernel programming mailing lists oriented toward new developers (see the on-line Resources), a number of common questions are asked. Almost every time one of these questions is asked, the ...