From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750902AbWEQPDx (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 May 2006 11:03:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751253AbWEQPDw (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 May 2006 11:03:52 -0400 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:28576 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750902AbWEQPDt (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 May 2006 11:03:49 -0400 Subject: Re: replacing X Window System ! From: Alan Cox To: linux cbon Cc: Jesper Juhl , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20060517145335.36079.qmail@web26611.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> References: <20060517145335.36079.qmail@web26611.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 16:16:50 +0100 Message-Id: <1147879010.10470.27.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-4.fc4) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mer, 2006-05-17 at 16:53 +0200, linux cbon wrote: > We dont need 2 kernels like today. > All "dangerous code" should be in kernel. The kernel is even more privileged than the X server so putting dangerous code there is counterproductive. Security comes about through intelligent design decisions, compartmentalisation, isolation of security critical code segments and the like. If you merely put shit in a different bucket you still have a bad smell. Alan