Re: Buffer overflow?

[Matthew Dillon <dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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:Matthew Dillon wrote:
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:>     The key is to make this all doable in userland.  Restricting
:>     these sorts of features to the kernel greatly reduces the
:>     number of people who can potentially develop code up 
:>     related projects.
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:Sorry, Matt, I can't quite parse that last sentence and it seems too
:important to let it slide.  Could you rephrase and amplify a bit?
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:And thanks for your earlier answer, it helped.

    urk.  double speak.

    Basically there are far more programmers capable of writing
    userland software then there are capable of writing kernel code.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>