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The dose makes the poison; we're still a long way from fulling embracing microkernels and capabilities. Security is a holistic property and encompasses finer de
by vacuity 2y ago
The dose makes the poison; we're still a long way from fulling embracing microkernels and capabilities. Security is a holistic property and encompasses finer details too. I want a small TCB. I want capabilities pervasively. And in pursuit of modularity and abstraction, I want to be able to choose the components I want and take those burdens myself. It's a bit silly seeing the nth SIGOPS-SOSP paper on how Linux can be improved by integrating userspace scheduling.
- pjmlp 2y agoIt is the same in safer systems programming languages, we already have the concept since 1961, but apparently making the industry take the right decisions is a tenuous path until something finally makes good ideas stick and gain adoption.