Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 17 May 2006 17:49:26 +0200 (CEST) | From | linux cbon <> | Subject | Re: replacing X Window System ! |
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--- Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> a écrit : > On Mer, 2006-05-17 at 16:53 +0200, linux cbon wrote: > > We dont need 2 kernels like today. > > All "dangerous code" should be in kernel. > > The kernel is even more privileged than the X server > so putting > dangerous code there is counterproductive. Security > comes about through > intelligent design decisions, compartmentalisation, > isolation of > security critical code segments and the like. If you > merely put shit in > a different bucket you still have a bad smell.
With "dangerous code" I meant : code which *could be potentially dangerous* like accessing directly the hardware etc. That code should be only in the kernel.
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