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Nothing because you've ignored the problems with modules in first place...

Nothing because you've ignored the problems with modules in first place...

Posted Dec 2, 2011 8:32 UTC (Fri) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
In reply to: Quotes of the week by marcH
Parent article: Quotes of the week

The problem with modules are the ability to insert arbitrary code in "ring 0" core. This is security risk. They also make debugging harder because code in memory may differ from code in kernel image. You solution throws the child with the bathwater: you have solution which still have all the problems of system with a lot of modules and it suffers from problems of module-less system.

Quite an achievement, I'd say...


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Nothing because you've ignored the problems with modules in first place...

Posted Dec 2, 2011 8:48 UTC (Fri) by marcH (subscriber, #57642) [Link]

Having personal problems lately? Wanna share?

Nothing because you've ignored the problems with modules in first place...

Posted Dec 4, 2011 1:38 UTC (Sun) by mab (subscriber, #314) [Link]

Maybe we need some sort of micro kernel :)

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