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Re: Re[6]: general protection: 4f00
On 20-Aug-98 Shlomi Fish wrote:
> 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.
>
> So what's your point?
My point is that a bug in kernel should be called "kernel bug" and a bug in an
application should be called "bug in application", and not vise versa or
otherwise with randomly choosen title.
> 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.
I've been working solely under Linux since 0.99pl11 (~ middle of 1993) and don't
need any advocacy nor for neither against it. If you lack an elementary courage
to publically acknowledge you've blurted out a folly (or at least stop the
thread) it's not a reason to talk didactically.
Regards,
Evgeny
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