Welcome to the LWN.net Weekly Edition for September 21, 2023
This edition contains the following feature content:
- Using the limited C API for the Python stdlib?: the cPython interpreter offers a limited API for the creation of extensions that are portable across Python releases, but the standard library does not use it. Some developers would like to change that situation; not all are agreed.
- The European Cyber Resilience Act: an overview of proposed European legislation that could create liability for free-software developers.
- Shrinking shrinker locking overhead: a proposal to improve the locking around shrinkers in the kernel.
- Moving physical pages from user space: a new system call to manage pages in the physical address space.
- Why glibc's fstat() is slow: a misunderstanding over the kernel's system-call ABI causes a GNU C Library system-call wrapper to be slower than it needs to be.
This week's edition also includes these inner pages:
- Brief items: Brief news items from throughout the community.
- Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.
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