A roundup of April Fools' Day patches submitted to the Linux kernel mailing list. One patch proposes blocking any binary named 'emacs' from executing, returning a custom 'EMACS' error. Another, by veteran Linux developer Christian Brauner, satirizes US state age verification legislation by requiring a prctl(PR_SET_BIRTHDATE) call with the user's birth date before the VFS layer allows new files to be created on the filesystem.
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