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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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