Re:A survey of BSD kernel vulnerabilities [pdf]
by saghm on Thursday July 27, 2017 @10:20PM
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That depends; do you mean that it has to be written in the next ten years and then later becomes widely used, or that it has to become widely used in the next ten years? If the former, I'd say maybe if Redox becomes mature enough to be widely used maybe a decade or so down the line (with "widely used" meaning "used as much as at least one of the major BSDs", since those are what are being discussed in the PDF), and if the latter, I'd say almost definitely not (and this is coming from a huge Rust fanatic)
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Re:A survey of BSD kernel vulnerabilities [pdf]
by Skunkleton on Thursday July 27, 2017 @10:38PM
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The best case scenario in that time frame would be to implement portions/new features of an existing kernel in a safe language. Maybe it could start with officially supported driver modules in rust?
Re:A survey of BSD kernel vulnerabilities [pdf]
by mpe on Thursday July 27, 2017 @11:11PM
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Yeah I agree. It would be great if parts of the kernel could be written in a safer language. I think in 10 years that will be happening in at least some widely used OS, but most likely one that only supports a small range of architectures.