Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263258AbUDEVYA (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Apr 2004 17:24:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263348AbUDEVWA (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Apr 2004 17:22:00 -0400 Received: from mailwasher.lanl.gov ([192.16.0.25]:63117 "EHLO mailwasher-b.lanl.gov") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263258AbUDEVVU (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Apr 2004 17:21:20 -0400 Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 15:21:18 -0600 (MDT) From: Stephen Smoogen To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: kernel stack challenge In-Reply-To: <4071CF6E.4030104@techsource.com> Message-ID: References: <20040405205412.60071.qmail@web40504.mail.yahoo.com> <4071CF6E.4030104@techsource.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1254 Lines: 36 On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, Timothy Miller wrote: >Sergiy Lozovsky wrote: > >> >> >> All LISP errors are incapsulated within LISP VM. >> > > >A LISP VM is a big, giant, bloated.... *CHOKE* *COUGH* *SPUTTER* >*SUFFOCATE* ... thing which SHOULD NEVER be in the kernel. Ah your thinking of the days when 1 meg of memory was a lot and LISP was considered huge.. With 4 gigs of memory today, it shouldnt be a problem :). Actually a LISP vm can fit into a small amount of memory depending on what you want it to do... I think in the end, this is a 'When all you know is to hammer, everything is a nail.' They know LISP. >Why do you choose LISP? Don't you want to use a language that sysadmins >will actually KNOW? Because how else can you get emacs to the only thing to run? -- Stephen John Smoogen smoogen@lanl.gov Los Alamos National Lab CCN-5 Sched 5/40 PH: 4-0645 Ta-03 SM-1498 MailStop B255 DP 10S Los Alamos, NM 87545 -- You should consider any operational computer to be a security problem -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/