From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3c2af3c0d0192437bcf596cf748846a9@coraid.com> From: erik quanstrom Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 15:09:43 -0500 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] interesting potential targets for plan 9 and/or inferno In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 13c3f4c2-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 i think you're assuming a few things 1. the amount of memory consumed by linux doesn't matter. 2. the amount of processor consumed by linux doesn't matter. 3. magic isn't built into shared libraries. for example, how do you know that the interface to the screen isn't built into the qt library (or whatever their cannonical graphics interface is)? running, as limbo can, in a hosted, virtual environment doesn't provide unlimited protection against what the host operating system may do to you. - erik