Published on: 2025-08-14 05:17:16
In a perfect world, everyone’s systems would be fully updated, patched regularly, and running the latest kernel. But let’s be real—that’s rarely the case. Some environments still rely on legacy versions of Ubuntu or Fedora, while others don't even have their kernels compiled with BTF (BPF Type Format) support. And if you’re maintaining any open-source tools, things get even messier. You have zero control over what kind of system your users will run your program on. All of this makes it trick
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-13 22:43:08
An update on pahole Pahole (originally "Poke-a-hole") is a Swiss Army knife for exploring and editing debug information. Pahole is also currently involved in the kernel's build process to rearrange the information produced by various compilers into a form useful to the BPF verifier, although there are plans to render it unnecessary. Pahole maintainer Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo shared some status updates about the project at the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit. In
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