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Posted Feb 4, 2018 18:05 UTC (Sun) by fratti (guest, #105722)
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>The Berkeley Packet Filter (BPF) virtual machine now has support for the defining and calling of functions within BPF programs.

I predict that by 2020, around 90% of the kernel will have been rewritten in eBPF, with only a few subsystems desperately clinging onto C.

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Posted Feb 4, 2018 18:40 UTC (Sun) by xtifr (guest, #143) [Link]

And we'll see a prototype of the first functional mail-user-agent written in eBPF, which means the first web browser can't be far behind! :D

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Posted Feb 4, 2018 19:08 UTC (Sun) by josh (subscriber, #17465) [Link] (1 responses)

I certainly look forward to the first driver written entirely in eBPF, nicely sandboxed and prevented from accessing anything it doesn't declare in advance.

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Posted Feb 4, 2018 19:59 UTC (Sun) by fratti (guest, #105722) [Link]

Unless of course there's another CPU bug^Wfeature, in which case sandboxes become meaningless and JIT becomes the attack vector.