Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2024 10:46:20 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: David Chisnall <theraven@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Alan Somers <asomers@FreeBSD.org>, George Mitchell <george+freebsd@m5p.com>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The Case for Rust (in the base system) Message-ID: <202401221046.40MAkKGX075486@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <C5FC83ED-25BC-44AF-BD20-E0E5F5BC64FE@FreeBSD.org> References: <CAOtMX2hAUiWdGPtpaCJLPZB%2Bj2yzNw5DSjUmkwTi%2B%2BmyemehCA@mail.gmail.com> <1673801705774097@mail.yandex.ru> <CANCZdfpqWgvV_RCvVO_pvTrmajQFspW%2BQ9TM_Ok3JrXZAfeAfA@mail.gmail.com> <ef4ad207-5899-42b6-8728-bc46f1417e9e@antonovs.family> <202401210751.40L7pWEF011188@critter.freebsd.dk> <40bc1694-ee00-431b-866e-396e9d5c07a2@m5p.com> <CAOtMX2hppfdu5ypDdGpfw_QDcd1rwJEeyVfSk9ogFEm7CiV6Kw@mail.gmail.com> <C5FC83ED-25BC-44AF-BD20-E0E5F5BC64FE@FreeBSD.org>
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David Chisnall writes: > I'd love to see a generic process manager in the base system > that subsumes devd and inetd written in Lua, [...] Back in 386BSD+patchkit days I changed inetd(8) so that you could write Tcl scripts in inetd.conf, and let them decide what you wanted to happen. It did everything tcpwrappers did, and then some. > I'd love to see a default that anything intended to run with > elevated privilege is written in Lua. Can you elaborate that one ? Do you mean "setuid programs" or "500 root programs" ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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