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- Date: Wed, 10 Nov 93 12:50:39 MST
- From: shenson@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Stephen Henson)
- Message-Id: <9311101950.AA19093@nyx10.cs.du.edu>
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- To: mint@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu
- Subject: Random comments ...
-
- Couple of comments ...
- I think if security is ever going to be less than a joke the cookie searching
- by the library needs to be replaced. After all security isn't mch good if
- the lowliest process can access supervisor mode.
- I'd like any interrupt driven hard disk handler to use something like:
- Rwabs(...usual parameters..., func). where transfer is in th ebackround
- and func() is called on completion. This way as much as possible is open
- to 'tweeking' and the risk of it not doing what you want due to proprietary
- restrictions etc is minimised.
- My mention of character/block special files was mainly as some method
- of identifying devices and a more coherent interface to the things. Only a
- suggestion, I wasn't offering to rewrite the kernel :-)
- Yes I hate having to kludge round buggy proprietary software too, but
- alas I haven;t any choice.
- Steve.
-