Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 8 Feb 1999 10:10:13 +1300 | From | Chris Wedgwood <> | Subject | Re: Linux-2.2.2-pre2.. |
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On Sun, Feb 07, 1999 at 10:51:23AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> If the exploit has as a part of it "kill bdflush", then I'm not > interested. That's like asking you to cut off your leg and seeing > if you bleed to death,
If bdflush was in kernel space I would agree. However, as pointed out, as is the kernel is now dependent on some user-space process to behave itself.
I know this isn't necessarily a bad thing, but I don't think it needs to be encouraged either.
-cw
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