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Re: Alternative network stack design (was: Re: Potential use case for op
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Jonathan S. Shapiro |
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Re: Alternative network stack design (was: Re: Potential use case for opaque space bank: domain factored network stack |
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Sun, 07 Jan 2007 23:26:24 -0500 |
On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 00:51 +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> At Sun, 07 Jan 2007 14:01:51 -0500,
> "Jonathan S. Shapiro" <address@hidden> wrote:
> > This sounds like you intend to have all network buffers owned by the
> > network subsystem. If so, you have re-invented denial of service.
> >
> > Could you clarify whether this is the case?
>
> I don't think so. The effect of the proposal is intended to be the
> following: Pages can be "tagged" so that they can be made opaque by
> certain designated (and thus authorized) subsystems only. Ownership
> of the resource remains within the party who did the tagging. I think
> that this description catches the main idea.
This begins to smell like dead fish. What this proposal is saying is:
We think that opaque pages are bad for some reason, but we
can't find a clean way to get rid of them and do effective
resource accounting, so we are restricting their use to the
Hurd-NG gods.
How is this position any different from RIAA restricting my use of
music?
--
Jonathan S. Shapiro, Ph.D.
Managing Director
The EROS Group, LLC
+1 443 927 1719 x5100
- Re: Opaque storage, (continued)
- Re: Opaque storage, Pierre THIERRY, 2007/01/10
- Re: Opaque storage, Marcus Brinkmann, 2007/01/10
- Re: Opaque storage, Pierre THIERRY, 2007/01/10
- Re: Opaque storage, Marcus Brinkmann, 2007/01/11
- Re: Opaque storage, Pierre THIERRY, 2007/01/11
- Re: Alternative network stack design, Tom Bachmann, 2007/01/08
- Re: Alternative network stack design (was: Re: Potential use case for opaque space bank: domain factored network stack,
Jonathan S. Shapiro <=
Re: Potential use case for opaque space bank: domain factored network stack, Ludovic Courtès, 2007/01/15