[openbeos] Re: Network Update
- From: "Andrew Edward McCall" <mccall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 23:39:26 GMT
> Excuse my ignorance on the matter, but a few queries....
> How does integration into kernelspace affect the way users have
> control
> over
> the networking modules?
> What I mean to say is, if there is a problem, is it still possible to
> simply 'restart'
> the net_server? And how about stability... is it wise to move things
> into kernel
> space when they're still untested... even when they are tested?
> As much as we might like to think otherwise, there are plenty of
> situations
> when things break, and killing the kernel team is probably not a
> NiceThing[tm]
As far as I know you will be able to restart the module. BeOS can do
dynamic kernel loading/unloading, so this isn't a problem, and you
won't have to restart every five minutes ala' old-Windows.
I think the issue you seem to be describing is when the stack receives
a malformed packet that it can't handle, and then treads over kernel
memory that it shouldn't have access too - that will/could be an issue,
but as far as I know David has used a very stable and secure OpenBSD
stack as the base for his work, and he knows what he is doing, so I
will trust it!
Thanks
Andrew Edward McCall
OpenBeOS Preferences & Applications Team Leader
mccall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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