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Re:A survey of BSD kernel vulnerabilities [pdf] by Skunkleton on Thursday July 27, 2017 @10:38PM (#14871514)
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?
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Re:A survey of BSD kernel vulnerabilities [pdf] by mpe on Thursday July 27, 2017 @11:11PM (#14871659)
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.
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