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diff --git a/open_issues/benefits_of_a_native_hurd_implementation.mdwn b/open_issues/benefits_of_a_native_hurd_implementation.mdwn index afdcfb73..dfd41837 100644 --- a/open_issues/benefits_of_a_native_hurd_implementation.mdwn +++ b/open_issues/benefits_of_a_native_hurd_implementation.mdwn @@ -1,4 +1,5 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010, 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010, 2011, 2013 Free Software Foundation, +Inc."]] [[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this @@ -120,6 +121,12 @@ IRC, #hurd, 2010-12-28 [...] <braunr> kilobug: right, a monolithick kernel is less folt-tolerant than a well designed/implemented microkernel based os + +It turns out that it is perfectly possible to isolate services running in the +same address space, as it was done in projects such as Singularity, the idea +being that the code is verified through static analysis when installed (but +this requires a language other than C). + <kilobug> braunr: well, the Hurd is buggy nowadays, but things like an ext2fs translator doing a segfault and being restarted is a fault-tolerance that would be almost impossible to have in Linux |