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Even in the dog days of (northern-hemisphere) summer, the kernel community
is a busy place. There are many developments that show up on your editor’s
radar, but which, for whatever reason, do not find their way into a
full-length feature article. The time has come to catch up with a few of
those topics; read on for updates on the realtime patch set, the effort to
reinvent futexes, and the ntfs3 filesystem.