On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> functionality that needs high performance completly in kernel? People
> may need to write high performance network code for custom protocols,
> this way they will end creating kernel modules with system-crashing
> bugs, memory leaks and kernel buffer overflows (chroot+nobody+logging
> won't work anymore). (plus they will get into pain while debugging)
I'm glad _someone_ is connected to reality with regards the security
implications of throwing loads of servers into kernel space.
Cheers
Chris
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