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                                            Alan Somers

`recvfrom`, `recvmsg` and `recvmmsg` might return uninitialized addresses when using connection-mode sockets

> I'm still not sure if I agree with you, especially if we consider more complex types like `UnixAddr`, that require > > * a valid path in `sun_path` >...

Possible Buffer-Overflow when sending control messages with `sendmmsg`

`sendmmsg` always makes me want to quit my programming job and pursue a second career as a swineherd. Before going further, could you please tell me if this bug was...

Mechanism to query existing signal handler

Could you suggest a complete API, or better yet post a PR?

Switch to libc wrapper instead of raw syscall for `gettid()` and `execveat()`

Nice research.

Allow memfd_create to be used with older glibc (<2.27)

Are you trying to create a dylib target? If so, your trouble should be fixed by #2049 .

Allow memfd_create to be used with older glibc (<2.27)

> Thanks for quick response! No, I’m building a binary target Do you mean an executable? Ordinary Rust executables should not have a problem with this, as I understand, unless...

Add `cargo-semver-checks` to automate checking for breaking changes.

> You would bump the version in the 1st commit since the last release that introduces a breaking change. This would have an unintended consequence of making it more difficult...

Add `cargo-semver-checks` to automate checking for breaking changes.

That said, this tool looks like it would be worthwhile to use in the release procedure, just not in CI.

New maintainers wanted

cc @nix-rust/nix-maintainers .

nix 0.27 `Epoll` API should be marked `unsafe`

I think that `Epoll::add` can still be safe, as long as the `Epoll` captures the lifetime of the file descriptors that it's adding. There might still be use-cases where the...