On Thu, 8 Aug 2002, Helge Hafting wrote:
> Pavel Machek wrote:
>
> > > Lots of other bootup initialization, like DHCP,
> > > might move to userspace as well. This gives a smaller
> > > and safer kernel.
> >
> > Why *safer*? Partition (,DHCP,..) code is ran once at boot. It is hard for
> > it to harm security.
>
> I wouldn't worry about partition detection, but network stuff
> is always risky. A "bad guy" could listen for DHCP
> and try to fake a response or do a buffer overflow.
I don't really care about DHCP, but anything needed for booting is sure
better off in the kernel. It can be a compile option for the embedded
folks, but I suspect the code to call the user program is about as large
as the code to actually check the partitions.
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