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Re:The benefits and costs of writing a POSIX kernel in a hig... by _qjt0 on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @03:10AM (#18182648)
Interesting. Regarding developers not caring about security, that's why I suggested it should be the default, with an option to turn it off for performance or other reasons, rather than the other way around.
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Re:The benefits and costs of writing a POSIX kernel in a hig... by pjmlp on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @07:05AM (#18183721)
Agreed, however that is against the culture of those that decide to stick with C no matter what.

Secure by default with option to turn those features off for performance, has been the way other systems programming languages have been designed since 1961.

That C culture is now being forced to change, because fixing memory corruption CVEs in devices that are permanently under security exploits attacks does not scale.

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Re:The benefits and costs of writing a POSIX kernel in a hig... by kartickv on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @08:57AM (#18184385)
Interesting perspective; thanks for sharing.
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