Re: 2.2.18Pre Lan Performance Rocks!

Chris Evans
2000-10-30T17:59:10Z

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