It's worth keeping in mind that there are very likely important security bugs far more dangerous than rowhammer-style attacks in Mach, let alone the Hurd. Security-critical applications should be pretty cautious.
On Sat, Feb 3, 2018 at 7:18 AM Samuel Thibault <samuel.thiba...@gnu.org> wrote: > Hello, > > Jonathan Sélea, on sam. 03 févr. 2018 11:59:40 +0100, wrote: > > How much is HURD affected by the Meltdown/Spectre bugs that has gotten > > alot of attention lately? > > Just like about any OS that tries to optimize at least a bit: meltdown > allows to read all of the main memory. > > There is a meltdown gnumach branch to mitigate that part, but my time > has been caught by the need for upstreaming glibc. > > Samuel > >
