News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Domesticating applications, OpenBSD style. Parent comment

Re:Domesticating applications, OpenBSD style by angersock on Wednesday July 22, 2015 @11:09AM (#9930045)
The kernel shouldn't know or care what "I need to use DNS" means, it should just be told what files I can open and what sockets ops I'm allowed to do.

Is this perhaps an artifact of the OpenBSD development model, where programs are assumed to work tightly coupled to the kernel?

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Domesticating applications, OpenBSD style by bodyfour on Wednesday July 22, 2015 @11:20AM (#9930114)
It is probably more acceptable to OpenBSD than it would be in Linux, but it still doesn't feel like a good idea.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Domesticating applications, OpenBSD style by batou on Wednesday July 22, 2015 @11:16AM (#9930088)
It shouldn't be. They're POSIX focused.
[ Parent | on HN ]