April 1 Linux Patches: Verified Birth Date For File Creation, Block Emacs From Running
What's more annoying: half-baked AI slop open-source patches or April Fools' Day with programmers trying to have some fun? This year, April 1 is seeming more patches than usual.
Besides the Linux patches to allow IPv6-only builds and to allow deprecating "legacy" IPv4 that does carry some elements of actual intent for better separating IPv4 and IPv6 in the kernel, there are also other April 1 patches this year on the Linux kernel mailing list.
There is a patch floated to block any "emacs" binary from executing. If the filename matches "emacs", it will return a new "EMACS" error for those that aren't fans of GNU Emacs.
Meanwhile given all the ongoing concerns around US states pursuing user age verification/attestation at the OS level and the impact on open-source software, veteran Linux developer Christian Brauner posted a VFS kernel patch for his take on the situation. With the patch he posted today, new files would not be created on the file-system unless there is a prctl(PR_SET_BIRTHDATE) set with the user's birth date. Without a birth date or at least not being 18 years old, the VFS layer would not allow new files to be created.
That patch is here for those curious.
Besides the Linux patches to allow IPv6-only builds and to allow deprecating "legacy" IPv4 that does carry some elements of actual intent for better separating IPv4 and IPv6 in the kernel, there are also other April 1 patches this year on the Linux kernel mailing list.
There is a patch floated to block any "emacs" binary from executing. If the filename matches "emacs", it will return a new "EMACS" error for those that aren't fans of GNU Emacs.
Meanwhile given all the ongoing concerns around US states pursuing user age verification/attestation at the OS level and the impact on open-source software, veteran Linux developer Christian Brauner posted a VFS kernel patch for his take on the situation. With the patch he posted today, new files would not be created on the file-system unless there is a prctl(PR_SET_BIRTHDATE) set with the user's birth date. Without a birth date or at least not being 18 years old, the VFS layer would not allow new files to be created.
That patch is here for those curious.