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Removing the Big Kernel Lock 222

Corrado writes "There is a big discussion going on over removing a bit of non-preemptable code from the Linux kernel. 'As some of the latency junkies on lkml already know, commit 8e3e076 in v2.6.26-rc2 removed the preemptable BKL feature and made the Big Kernel Lock a spinlock and thus turned it into non-preemptable code again. "This commit returned the BKL code to the 2.6.7 state of affairs in essence," began Ingo Molnar. He noted that this had a very negative effect on the real time kernel efforts, adding that Linux creator Linus Torvalds indicated the only acceptable way forward was to completely remove the BKL.'"

Judge Rules In Favor Of Spamhaus 232

Waylon writes "U.S. District Judge Charles Kocoras has ruled in favor of The Spamhaus Project. e360 Insight responded on its homepage, saying the judge's ruling was 'a devastating loss of personal freedom for all U.S. citizens'. As opposed to shutting down a voluntary service which tries to mitigate the millions of unsolicited emails that e360 Insight pumps out every single day." From the article: "In his order, Judge Kocoras wrote that the relief e360insight sought is 'too broad to be warranted in this case' and that suspending the domain name would 'cut off all lawful online activities of Spamhaus, not just those that are in contravention' of the default judgment. He also called e360insight's motion one that 'does not correspond to the gravity of the offending conduct.'"

Comment Re:Someone (Score 1) 471

Or, if you have a perl interpreter with the LWP::UserAgent module (included in ActivePerl), you can use this script :
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use LWP::UserAgent;

open FILES, "<utilities.txt";
while( <FILES> )
{
chomp;
my ( $filename ) = $_ =~ /.+\/(.+)/;
my $request = LWP::UserAgent->new->get( $_ , ':content_file' => $filename );
}
close FILES;

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