Sigh. NIH continues.
Sigh. NIH continues.
Posted Feb 26, 2025 5:24 UTC (Wed) by tullmann (subscriber, #20149)In reply to: Sigh. NIH continues. by Cyberax
Parent article: A possible path for cancelable BPF programs
The original BPF paper is from 1992, so I don't think this is a case of NIH.
I do think the idea of isolating untrusted code so you can cleanly and efficiently terminate it is ... what user mode was originally designed for. So there is definitely a lot of prior art nearby in the kernel ....