Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 18:13:07 +0900 (JST) From: Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp> To: Jamie Bowden <jamie@itribe.net> Cc: John Peter DeVale <jdevale@ece.cmu.edu>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Netcards Message-ID: <Pine.SV4.3.95.980110180117.17965B-100000@parkplace.cet.co.jp> In-Reply-To: <199801091427.JAA07552@gatekeeper.itribe.net>
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I'm firmly in the camp that correctness is a higher priority than robustness. A user process should be terminated quickly when it does something wrong. This ends up giving us far higher quality code than having the kernel sweeping possibly insidious bugs under the carpet. These include NULL value errors and double FREEs. I agree with your later statements that the kernel should be protected from crashing from junk values going into system calls. Regards, Mike Hancock -- michaelh@cet.co.jp http://www.cet.co.jp CET Inc., Daiichi Kasuya BLDG 8F 2-5-12, Higashi Shinbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105 Japan Tel: +81-3-3437-1761 Fax: +81-3-3437-1766
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