On Mon, 20 Mar 2006, James Carlson wrote: > Yann POUPET writes: > > "Hurg ! It seems your naughty sound card driver has crashed. > > Do you want to try to reset it ? [YES] [NO] > > Do you want to unload and reload it ? [YES] [NO] > > Do you want to send a bug report to the maintainer ? [YES] [NO] > > Do you want to be informed by email when it is fixed ? [YES] [NO] > > The missing bit here is that there's just no protection inside the > kernel. A "crashed" kernel extension means that we can no longer > really trust anything about the overall kernel integrity. If we > assume that avoiding data corruption is the highest priority > (historically for Solaris this is true), then the only option left is > to take down the system.
Which is a problem with the original list. It was a lot of features from a lot of esoteric OSes with very different designs, and design constraints, than Unix This feature, for example, was suggested because of its presence in Minix 3, where device drivers run as isolated processes in user space.... later, chris _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
