Articles by Michael Kerrisk

Below is a near complete list of articles I've written for online journals (mainly LWN.net):

• Filesystem notification APIs
• Part 1: An overview of dnotify and inotify (LWN.net, 2014-07-09)
• Part 2: A deeper investigation of inotify (LWN.net, 2014-07-14)
• Glibc feature test macros (LWN.net, 2014-03-12)
• Proper handling of unknown flags in system calls (LWN.net, 2014-02-26)
• Flags as a system call API design pattern (LWN.net, 2014-02-12)
• Fedora 19 alpha (LWN.net, 2013-04-24)
• Dynamic linking and derivative works (LWN.net, 2013-04-24)
• Current challenges in the free software ecosystem (LWN.net, 2013-04-17)
• Surveying open source licenses (LWN.net, 2013-04-17)
• Legal issues from a radical community angle (LWN.net, 2013-04-10)
• Mozilla's trademark enforcement experience (LWN.net, 2013-04-10)
• A VFS deadlock post-mortem (LWN.net, 2013-04-03)
• Avoiding game-score loss with per-process reclaim (LWN.net, 2013-04-03)
• Widening ext4's readdir() cookie (LWN.net, 2013-03-27)
• A kernel change breaks GlusterFS (LWN.net, 2013-03-27)
• Anatomy of a user namespaces vulnerability (LWN.net, 2013-03-20)
• The trouble with CAP_SYS_RAWIO (LWN.net, 2013-03-13)
• The SO_REUSEPORT socket option (LWN.net, 2013-03-13)
• LCA: The Trinity fuzz tester (LWN.net, 2013-02-06)
• LCA: Linux gaming at last (LWN.net, 2013-02-06)
• Glibc and the kernel user-space API (LWN.net, 2013-01-30)
• LCA: The future of the Linux desktop (LWN.net, 2013-01-30)
• Making EPERM friendlier (LWN.net, 2013-01-19)
• Supporting variable-sized huge pages (LWN.net, 2013-01-23)
• Checkpoint/restore and signals (LWN.net, 2013-01-09)
• My series of articles on Linux namespaces ("Namespaces in operation"):
• Part 1: namespaces overview (LWN.net, 2013-01-04)
• Part 2: the namespaces API (LWN.net, 2013-01-08)
• Part 3: PID namespaces (LWN.net, 2013-01-16)
• Part 4: more on PID namespaces (LWN.net, 2013-01-23)
• Part 5: User namespaces (LWN.net, 2013-02-27)
• Part 6: more on user namespaces (LWN.net, 2013-03-06)
• Part 8: mount namespaces and shared subtrees (LWN.net, 2016-06-08)
• Part 9: mount namespaces, mount propagation, and unbindable mounts (LWN.net, 2016-06-15)
• GnuTLS, copyright assignment, and GNU project governance (LWN.net, 2012-12-20)
• User namespaces progress (LWN.net, 2012-12-13)
• Stepping closer to practical containers: "syslog" namespaces (LWN.net, 2012-12-05)
• LCE: Don't play dice with random numbers (LWN.net, 2012-11-20)
• LCE: Checkpoint/restore in user space: are we there yet? (LWN.net, 2012-11-20)
• LCE: All watched over by machines of loving grace (LWN.net, 2012-11-14)
• LCE: The failure of operating systems and how we can fix it (LWN.net, 2012-11-14)
• Many more words on volatile ranges (LWN.net, 2012-11-05)
• LCE: Systemd two years on (LWN.net, 2012-11-07)
• A brief sketch of Processing (LWN.net, 2012-10-31)
• Privacyfix (LWN.net, 2012-10-24)
• EPOLL_CTL_DISABLE, epoll, and API design (LWN.net, 2012-10-23)
• getauxval() and the auxiliary vector (LWN.net, 2012-10-10)
• Loading modules from file descriptors (LWN.net, 2012-10-10)
• EPOLL_CTL_DISABLE and multithreaded applications (LWN.net, 2012-10-17)
• XDC2012: The X.Org Developers' Conference (various articles) (LWN.net, 2012-09-26)
• LinuxCon: The tragedy of the commons gatekeepers (LWN.net, 2012-09-26)
• The 2012 Kernel Summit (various articles covering the summit) (LWN.net, 2012-08-29)
• GENIVI: moving an industry to open source (LWN.net, 2012-08-08)
• TCP Fast Open: expediting web services (LWN.net, 2012-08-01)
• The UAPI header file split (LWN.net, 2012-07-25)
• The ups and downs of strlcpy() (LWN.net, 2012-07-18)
• CAP_SYS_ADMIN: the new root (LWN.net, 2012-03-14)
• The new pselect() system call (LWN.net, 2006-03-24)