OT: Can We Make OSes Reliable and Secure

Sy Ali sy1234-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Fri Jun 2 20:02:48 UTC 2006


On 6/2/06, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> This isn't virtualization, which does tend to be expensive...

CPUs are getting more direct support for concepts like this.  Perhaps,
over time, tweaks like this will help the various jailing methods be
less costly for performance.

It feels to me that applications will keep being written in a
haphazard way, and structures will get written to wrap around them for
security etc.
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