Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750723AbWEQPt2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 May 2006 11:49:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750720AbWEQPt2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 May 2006 11:49:28 -0400 Received: from web26606.mail.ukl.yahoo.com ([217.146.176.56]:58254 "HELO web26606.mail.ukl.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1750723AbWEQPt1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 May 2006 11:49:27 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.fr; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=2OZaVtESauXmGqNcvLekfnmrJwYz6VKXEAG6JylnesoUpRXcTPdSqlhHynhoPHjcyHx3s6sAjq+UOGB9frmUePVLerFM163wZS91N6gblwd/0v3L7wyTH+VRJeaI0qDDGyLqyX2Orchex4TUVYBPS/phsLU6FswEOqoNl39W4/c= ; Message-ID: <20060517154926.35649.qmail@web26606.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 17:49:26 +0200 (CEST) From: linux cbon Subject: Re: replacing X Window System ! To: Alan Cox Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <1147879010.10470.27.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1262 Lines: 43 --- Alan Cox a ?crit : > On Mer, 2006-05-17 at 16:53 +0200, linux cbon wrote: > > We dont need 2 kernels like today. > > All "dangerous code" should be in kernel. > > The kernel is even more privileged than the X server > so putting > dangerous code there is counterproductive. Security > comes about through > intelligent design decisions, compartmentalisation, > isolation of > security critical code segments and the like. If you > merely put shit in > a different bucket you still have a bad smell. With "dangerous code" I meant : code which *could be potentially dangerous* like accessing directly the hardware etc. That code should be only in the kernel. ___________________________________________________________________________ Faites de Yahoo! votre page d'accueil sur le web pour retrouver directement vos services pr?f?r?s : v?rifiez vos nouveaux mails, lancez vos recherches et suivez l'actualit? en temps r?el. Rendez-vous sur http://fr.yahoo.com/set - 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/