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From: Vinzent 'Gadget' Hoefler <ada.rocks@jlfencey.com>
Subject: Re: C's trikery semantic opens up backdoor in new Linux kernel
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 10:44:47 +0100
Date: 2003-11-14T10:44:47+01:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <bp289b$1htajf$1@ID-175126.news.uni-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20031114093318.000065b0._elh_@_terma_._com_

Erlo Haugen wrote:

>On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 10:04:02 +1300
>Craig Carey <research@ijs.co.nz> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 15:09:52 +0100, Vinzent 'Gadget' Hoefler wrote:
>> ...
>> >No. And you? Do you really think that the linux kernel community would
>> >like the idea of using a *function* to get/set a plain simple integer
>> >variable? I already hear them scream: "It would be too inefficient.
>> >Especially in a *kernel*!" ;-)
>> 
>> Ada 95 could be enhanced so that specified record fields could be
>> read-only.

BTW, this is a neat idea. OTOH, for this approach to be practical
someone *must* have write access.

>Isn't this a matter of optmization?

Precisely. AFAICS.


Vinzent.



  reply	other threads:[~2003-11-14  9:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-12  3:17 C's trikery semantic opens up backdoor in new Linux kernel Adrian Hoe
2003-11-12  4:26 ` Stephane Richard
2003-11-12  5:13   ` J Cusick
2003-11-12  7:18     ` Vinzent 'Gadget' Hoefler
2003-11-12  7:50       ` Duncan Sands
2003-11-12 12:08         ` Vinzent 'Gadget' Hoefler
2003-11-12 13:38           ` Duncan Sands
2003-11-12 14:09             ` Vinzent 'Gadget' Hoefler
2003-11-13 21:04               ` Craig Carey
2003-11-14  6:45                 ` Freejack
2003-11-14  8:33                 ` Erlo Haugen
2003-11-14  9:44                   ` Vinzent 'Gadget' Hoefler [this message]
2003-11-14 10:16                     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2003-11-25 10:06                       ` Craig Carey
2003-11-25 11:20                         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2003-11-14 15:31                 ` Robert I. Eachus
2003-11-14 13:12               ` Georg Bauhaus
2003-11-14 13:31                 ` Duncan Sands
2003-11-14 14:56                 ` Vinzent 'Gadget' Hoefler
2003-11-14 15:08                   ` Georg Bauhaus
2003-11-14 15:38                     ` Duncan Sands
2003-11-14 17:57                       ` Georg Bauhaus
2003-11-14 15:47               ` Robert I. Eachus
2003-11-14 16:38                 ` Vinzent 'Gadget' Hoefler
2003-11-19  4:13             ` Dave Thompson
2003-11-21 15:34               ` Martin Krischik
2003-11-23  2:20                 ` Hyman Rosen
2003-11-27  4:22                 ` Dave Thompson
2003-11-28 14:01                   ` Hyman Rosen
2003-11-12 17:37       ` tmoran
2003-11-12 18:03       ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2003-11-12  8:51     ` Adrian Hoe
2003-11-12 12:32       ` Preben Randhol
2003-11-13  5:50         ` Chad R. Meiners
2003-11-12 22:59       ` Wes Groleau
2003-11-14  3:31         ` Adrian Hoe
2003-11-14 11:00           ` Dmytry Lavrov
2003-11-15  5:00             ` Adrian Hoe
2003-11-15  5:02             ` Adrian Hoe
2003-11-16 11:29               ` Dmytry Lavrov
2003-11-17 17:07                 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2003-11-16 11:35             ` Dmytry Lavrov
2003-11-15 19:30           ` Wes Groleau
2003-11-12  8:52   ` Adrian Hoe
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