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Kees is one of the few developers in the world doing the boots-on-the-ground rough-and-tumble soul-withering grunt work of actually making Linux kernel more sec
by steelframe 8y ago
Kees is one of the few developers in the world doing the boots-on-the-ground rough-and-tumble soul-withering grunt work of actually making Linux kernel more secure. It's not glorious work, but it's perhaps the most important work anyone's doing in the kernel these days. The world runs on the Linux kernel, and from a security standpoint, it's really been a mess (see: Dmitry's Syzkaller talk). Too many contributors are drive-by scattershot "my boss told me to upstream this stuff" types who don't really care about the incremental suckage they inject into the kernel. Bravo on Kees for doing what he's doing.
- est31 8y agoIndeed, we need more people like him.
- pjmlp 8y agoIndeed and that is why I mostly criticise C, we need solid foundations and UNIX clones aren't going anywhere for the foreseeable future. So whatever can be done in a safer languages should be, and for use cases like this we really need to improve what actually means to use C. Linux is a very good example that even with quality gates, safety errors creep in and something has to be done about it. Really kudos to Kees and everyone else involved on these projects.