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Re: Re[6]: general protection: 4f00



On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, Evgeny Stambulchik wrote:

> Buffer overflows are problems of badly written *programs* which can 
> crash kernel
> by rewriting system areas of memory (if they run under root UID, of course). But
> again, it's not an OS bug. Like in the example you mentioned with bind, such
> bugs can be discovered and patched. The patch doesn't require any changes 
> to be
> made to the kernel itself.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Evgeny
> 

So what's your point? That the Linux kernel/libc _can_ have bugs? Well: it
can, and the evidence is that 36 versions of the 2.0.x kernel came out in
a little more than two years.

Linux is a relatively new OS, with a "limited" user-base. From what I
heard, OpenBSD which is based on an older source code back from the 70's,
is more bug-free than Linux is. If it makes you happy, you can switch to
OpenBSD, but be warned that is much less popular.

C'est la vie.

	Shlomi Fish