Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 08 Oct 1999 14:04:05 +0200 | From | Marcin Dalecki <> | Subject | Re: USB device allocation |
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David Weinehall wrote: > > On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Martin Dalecki wrote: > > > danielt@digi.com wrote: > > [snipped a lot for sanity's sake] > > > But anybody more concearned with system design sees this and says: > > "What a childisch idea. Files are data and file systems are for files > > and > > for nothing else. They shouldn't be abused as a backdoor to the kernel. > > [snipped even more] > > Let me guess: You really hate procfs, don't you?
Hate? No this isn't applicable here. I think it's just a very twisted idea with really ugly results. However all the objections against any kind of a special purpose FS can be compressed to the following:
"Why the hell doesn't
tar cf my_system.tar /
work?"
In fact last time I have tryed (ok it's a lot of time ago) it turned out to be the most trivial DOS attack out there.
--Marcin
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