Messages in this thread | | | From | (Linus Torvalds) | Subject | Re: is KERNEL developement finished, yet ??? | Date | Thu, 5 Dec 2002 18:07:22 +0000 (UTC) |
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In article <000901c29c5d$6d194760$2e833841@joe>, Joseph D. Wagner <wagnerjd@prodigy.net> wrote: > >Unix (and Linux) developers are far too concerned with clinging to the >30-year-old outdated POSIX standard, which creates numerous problems when >trying to advance new features.
No.
Only stupid people think they should throw away old proven concepts. What happens quite often in academia in particular is that you find a problem you want to fix, and you re-design the whole system around your fix.
This is how we get crap like microkernels. They have "an agenda", and that's the _worst_ thing you can have when designing software. You fixate on some perceived problem, and the end result is that yes, maybe you fixed _that_ problem, but in the meantime you also generated a whole new of issues - usually things that were solved by the original approach.
The UNIX/Linux approach is a very pragmatic thing - leave the things that work well alone. There's no point in re-inventing the whole system just because of some small perceived flaws.
>This is not a design flaw per say, but let's face it: Unix would be a lot >more secure (and more flexible in it's security) with ACL's. > >Microsoft Windows has had ACL's since 1991 (Windows NT 3.5?); that was 11 >years ago.
Yeah, and look how much more secure it is than UNIX.
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