A local attacker in a guest operating system could issue a specific read that would cause the host system to crash, leading to a denial of service. The linux kernel is a free and opensource, monolithic, unixlike operating system kernel. These sources are maintained contrary to popular belief not by linus torvalds himself, but by marcelo tosatti. Ibm pledges to spend 1 billion dollars on linux, and a new maintainer steps up, marcelo tosatti. If you missed it, you may also want to visit the answers mar. The patch, submitted by kosaki motohiro, has been through several iterations on linuxkernel. The internet, unix, bsd, and linux linux kenneth r. Add a driver with gettime method returning hosts realtime clock. Alan cox for the bleedingedge development branch, and marcelo tosatti for. Tosatti decides what changes can be made to the kernel and when to release new versions of the core system software for linux.
The work was originally started by marcelo tosatti, with the fifth version recently posted by kosaki. In an interview with zdnet uk, conectiva developer marcelo tosatti discusses. Willy tarreau formerly marcelo tosatti eol maintained from december 2008 to december 2011, last stable release of the 2. He took over from alan cox, a major figure in the linux community and. Theres an interview over at developerworks linux zone with linuss latest lieutenant marcelo tosatti. This allows chrony to synchronize host and guest clocks with high precision see results below.
The new linux kernel maintainer speaks to zdnet uk about opportunities for linux in applications big and small, and explains why unitedlinux is a good idea. Linus torvalds righthand man says kernel developer marcelo tosatti will become the head maintainer of the 2. Live block copy marcelo tosatti, red hat, kvm forum 2011. Marcelo tosatti, the deputy that linux leader linus torvalds appointed to maintain the 2. Marcelo tosatti academic dictionaries and encyclopedias. Unlike just about any other large free software project, the linux kernel relies on.
He took over from alan cox, a major figure in the linux community and longtime maintainer. It was conceived and created in 1991 by linus torvalds. He also defends unitedlinux against mandrakes criticism. Marcelo tosatti discovered that the linux kernels hardware virtualization did not correctly handle reading the devport special device. He talks about what its like to be kernel maintainer after nine months on the job and identifies the biggest problems with the kernel now. For isvs its incredibly expensive to have to certify their software for. In an interview with zdnet uk, tosatti talked about his daily job of applying kernel. He talks about what it takes to be the maintainer of the linux kernel, what his plans are for 2. After a long and difficult life, devfs is finally being removed from the linux kernel.
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