Re: UTF-8 practically vs. theoretically in the VFS API (was: Re: JFS default behavior)

From: John Bradford
Date: Tue Feb 17 2004 - 15:56:52 EST


Quote from viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 08:35:22PM +0000, John Bradford wrote:
> > Why not:
>
> [snip a massive pile of idiocy]
>
> > * Note that this is very different to my last suggestion, which was
> > fundamentally broken in many ways.
>
> So is that one. To the level of Hohensee and RBJ.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but your suggestions seems to be along the
lines of:

"Sit and watch a load of buggy userspace applications get written,
content in the knowledge that it wasn't my fault, because the security
vulnerabilities aren't actually in the kernel".

John.
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