On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 07:28:10PM +0100, Olivier Galibert wrote: > On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 04:30:12PM +0100, Niels M�ller wrote: > > The point of the Hurd is make file systems (as well as some other > > things that traditionally live in kernel land) fun and *easy* for > > ordinary users to run, install and hack. > > But then, you have projects like http://lufs.sourceforge.net/ which > seem to give you the equivalent under Linux. It seems to me the main > reason why something like that isn't standard in Linux or BSD kernels > is the lack of a decent security model for them.
Indeed. > What are these other things, apart from the passive translators[1]? > [1] Very nice, but also lacking a working security model. We have a working security model, thank-you-very-much (note: the current implementation has its own flaws, but we know the fix to all known-flaws). If you have any particular criticism, please say it out loud. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' GNU http://www.gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann The Hurd http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de/ _______________________________________________ Help-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-hurd
