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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Subject: Re: RFC: Network privilege separation.
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:39:31 +0100
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> What's the point of writing a parser (that could also have bugs) when the 

Sorry you lost me. What do you mean with parser here?

> kernel can do it?

And what does it have to do with the kernel?

> A normal DVD would be over 30 megabytes per seconds once decoded, just for the 
On many modern systems 30MB/s copies is nothing ... Also in this
case they tend to be cache hot, which makes them much cheaper.

Yes it would be somewhat slower, but if it avoids a couple of security
updates that would be probably worth it.

-Andi
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ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.