Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Bryan O'Donoghue (typedef at eircom.net):
>>>>For shame : Graphics drivers in ring zero.
>>> The point is that it was avoidable.
>>>>Thank god in Linux/BSD land we run our file system drivers, network
>>drivers, schedulers, ... in userspace...
>>> The point is that _some_ of this is not. But thank you for raising the
> matter of filesystem (and block-device) drivers: Increasingly, we _are_
> starting to see measures to have these in userspace, specifically to
> protect core system functionality against problems in their code.
>
hmmm.
Bryan: smugley executing "hello world" on his shiny new GNU Hurd
microkernel.....
any day now...
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