Re: Security models

2008-12-18 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Donnerstag 18 Dezember 2008 09:06:15 schrieb olafbuddenha...@gmx.net: > > (by the way: having a user process which manages a non-restricted > > buffer should give almost the same advantages as giving memory > > directly to the server, but without the drawbacks. And it should be > > painless, sin

Re: Niches for the Hurd: evaluation method; was: DRM musings, capabilities and stuff

2008-12-18 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Donnerstag 18 Dezember 2008 16:03:39 schrieb Michal Suchanek: > > Only if you assume that "security that is actually usable" implies > > hiding things from the parent process. As I already explained, we > > believe this assumption to be fundamentally wrong. Get over it. > > As I said numerous ti

Technical design question

2008-12-18 Thread Alfeiks Kaanoken (MadTirra)
Hello, As I know GNU Hurd works now on GNU mach only, and l4 port are not ready. I have a good skills in OS development (microkernels and microkernel services design) - mostly within small closed source OSes. Some time ago I've decide to open some works within this area and create GNU GPL/LGPL m

Re: Niches for the Hurd: evaluation method; was: DRM musings, capabilities and stuff

2008-12-18 Thread Michal Suchanek
2008/12/18 : > Hi, > > On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 12:09:19PM +0100, Michal Suchanek wrote: >> 2008/12/12 : > >> I see that the EROS or Coyotos as a whole does not fit the >> requirements of a GNU system but I think reusing some basic parts is >> no worse than using any other kernel. > > Well, if we

Re: What shall the filter do to bottommost translators

2008-12-18 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 11:34:57PM +0200, Sergiu Ivanov wrote: > On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 9:28 AM, wrote: > I'll put my question differently: are we going to return the control > ports (that is, ports to filesystem) inside a instances of struct node > (provided libnetfs) as it happens in the c

Re: Security models

2008-12-18 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 07:30:53PM +0100, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > Am Samstag 06 Dezember 2008 22:17:12 schrieb olafbuddenha...@gmx.net: > > So you have offlist discussions, have you? I feel left out ;-) > > The discussion stumbled offline since Michal accidently only answered > to me

Re: Problems with stability of networking / pfinet

2008-12-18 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 11:13:04PM +0100, Thomas Schwinge wrote: > On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 10:06:54AM +0200, I wrote: > > For a few weeks now, I seem to notice more and more problems w.r.t. > > networking. Olaf confirmed this. Well, not exactly: While I can confirm that disabling syslog fix

Re: Niches for the Hurd: evaluation method; was: DRM musings, capabilities and stuff

2008-12-18 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 12:09:19PM +0100, Michal Suchanek wrote: > 2008/12/12 : > I see that the EROS or Coyotos as a whole does not fit the > requirements of a GNU system but I think reusing some basic parts is > no worse than using any other kernel. Well, if we don't use the constructor m