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Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 11:01:25 -0700
From: "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@timpanogas.org>
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To: Chris Evans <chris@scary.beasts.org>
CC: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
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Subject: Re: 2.2.18Pre Lan Performance Rocks!
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Chris Evans wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 

If we implement a ring 0 Linux, all of this will remain intact with the
need to 
port modules into the kernel at all.  

Jeff

> Cheers
> Chris
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