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- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Path: sparky!uunet!hacker!steve
- From: steve@hacker.UUCP (Stephen M. Youndt)
- Subject: Re: GNU kids on the block? (sorry... couldn't resist)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.221436.22072@hacker.UUCP>
- Reply-To: steve@hacker.UUCP (Stephen M. Youndt)
- Organization: HaL Systems, Burke, VA
- References: <la0fp9INNe3@appserv.Eng.Sun.COM> <1992Aug31.185733.21037@hpmcaa.mcm.hp.com> <1992Aug31.200513.16637@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 92 22:14:36 GMT
- Lines: 33
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- In article <1992Aug31.200513.16637@klaava.Helsinki.FI> torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds) writes:
- >In article <1992Aug31.185733.21037@hpmcaa.mcm.hp.com> bryanf@hpmcaa (Bryan Ford) writes:
- >>lm@slovax.Eng.Sun.COM (Larry McVoy) writes:
- >>> steve@hacker.UUCP (Stephen M. Youndt) writes:
- >>> : but I feel very strongly about one thing [...]
- >>> : (according to rumors :-), and that's reloadable device drivers.
- >>> : It just seems that the micro kernel people are the only ones doing it.
- >>>
- >>> SunOS has had loadable device drivers, system calls, and functions (I'm
- >>> not sure what you use the last one for but there it is) since SunOS 4.1.
- >>
- >>So has AmigaDOS, since 1.0. :-)
-
- Gee, now if I only had room in my apartment for two more computers... :-)
- (and a bit more money).
-
- >
- >I've got a month or two to implement them yet (evil grin)
- > Linus
-
- If you do both loadable device drivers *and* system calls, then I can
- really do some hacking!!! After all, my favorite system call in VMS is
- $CMKRNL (Change Mode to KeRNel). What I guess I really like in an OS
- are *standard* ways to really hack it up.
-
- BTW, is anybody here interested in, or working on, adding C2 or better
- security features to Linux?
-
- Steve
- --
- Stephen M. Youndt UUCP: uunet!hacker!steve I-NET: steve%hacker@uunet.uu.net
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