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It's true in the sense that nobody understands it well enough to avoid writing memory safety bugs.
by klysm 2y ago
It's true in the sense that nobody understands it well enough to avoid writing memory safety bugs.
- AlotOfReading 2y agoA lot of kernel resources are managed through infrastructure like devres: https://docs.kernel.org/6.0/driver-api/driver-model/devres.html https://docs.kernel.org/6.0/driver-api/driver-model/devres.h... These days it's entirely possible to write a decent driver with only the foggiest idea of how memory management happens in the kernel.