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DateMon, 31 Aug 1998 07:57:42 +0100
FromJamie Lokier <>
SubjectRe: Virtual Machines, JVM in kernel, hot-swapped kernel
On Sat, Aug 29, 1998 at 08:09:36PM -0300, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
> A certain Knuth quote springs to mind. And if the proof verifier were
> np-complete (wouldn't it have to be?),

I shouldn't think so. A rather uneducated guess from me says a proof
verification machine probably doesn't even need to be Turing-complete,

> it would present still another way to hang a system inadvertently.

Run the verifier in a thread. No need to stop everything else while you
check a module is allowed to run.

-- Jamie

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