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Capture and analyze the system call and log activity of your cloud-based Linux containers using a new tool based on the familiar Wireshark. Securing cloud applications is both easy and hard. Easy ...

There's an effort under way to reduce and ultimately remove all system call invocations from within kernel space. Dominik Brodowski was leading this effort, and he posted some patches to remove a lot ...

A vDSO (virtual dynamic shared object) is an alternative to the somewhat cycle-expensive system call interface that the GNU/Linux kernel provides. But, before I explain how to cook up your own vDSO, ...