RFD: Rework/extending functionality of mdev

Laurent Bercot ska-dietlibc at skarnet.org
Sun Mar 15 22:54:51 UTC 2015


On 15/03/2015 23:44, Harald Becker wrote:
> There are to many stupid programmers out there, who would try to add
> something like that into system management related programs. Couldn't
> go worser. Even if it works, at the first glance, it is error prone,
> and the next who change message size of one process, will break the
> chain, and possibly smash the system (as running with root
> privileges).
>
> Laurent just overlooked my lead in "just for curiosity". And (again)
> that's it: curiosity.
>
> ... at least until reactions have bean standardized, clearly
> documented (not same as former), and guarantied.

  Yes.
  Thank you for acknowledging it and for alleviating my fear.

-- 
  Laurent


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