Hi, On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 09:42:13AM -0700, Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
> My one concern with Viengoos -- and I have expressed this to Neal many > times -- is that in the pursuit of better resource arbitrage Neal has > given up resource isolation, and there are fairly important (and > unfortunate) security consequences for that. It is possible that these > can be addressed, and it is fair to experiment on one thing at a time, > but it needs to be clearly understood that Viengoos is an experimental > kernel, and that it is *not* suitable in its current form for > production use. I'm pretty sure it's not worse at least than the systems people use for production nowadays... While *some* improvement in this regard would certainly be nice to have (and quite possible with Viengoos IMHO), it was never really an explicit goal of the Hurd. -antrik-
