From c4ad3f73033c7e0511c3e7df961e1232cc503478 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Schwinge Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 12:32:06 +0100 Subject: IRC. --- hurd/critique.mdwn | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'hurd/critique.mdwn') diff --git a/hurd/critique.mdwn b/hurd/critique.mdwn index c432cc17..69400c5c 100644 --- a/hurd/critique.mdwn +++ b/hurd/critique.mdwn @@ -1,12 +1,13 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008, 2014 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 document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license -is included in the section entitled -[[GNU Free Documentation License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] +is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation +License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] [[!meta title="A Critique of the GNU Hurd Multi-server Operating System"]] @@ -18,3 +19,29 @@ is sometimes referred to as *the critique*. The paper provides a technical overview of the Hurd's architecture and critiques some of the decisions made. + + +# IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2014-02-06 + + Just read a paper on hurd. + Some interesting dot-dot and chroot issues were raised. + But this was written my guess is in about 2007. + + +## IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2014-02-08 + + bwright: both the dot-dot and chroot issues are fairly easy to + solve... of course they do indicate some more fundamental things to keep + in mind though. in fact, a few years ago we came up with a concept for + making filesystem permission handling more robust... but nobody ever got + to implementing it :-( + bwright: this paper, I guess you are referring to the "critique"? + it was in fact written by the Hurd/L4 initiators. the observations made + in this paper are right, but IMHO they got carried away on the + conclusions -- most of the issues can be solved within the existing + framework, if you think about the actual problems seriously + so they didn't think about it seriously? + azeem: not in the right mindset I'd say :-) + macrus actually said himself a while later that he probably + could/should have implemented some of the ideas within the existing + Hurd... -- cgit v1.2.3