From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <6b0cba33f3836890d7fc25602e1fc0d2@quanstro.net> From: erik quanstrom Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 07:51:40 -0400 To: lucio@proxima.alt.za, 9fans@9fans.net In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] security questions Topicbox-Message-UUID: e0306700-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > The > virtual memory management is too persuasive to be broken in any > significant way. do you mean pervasive? if you do, i don't buy the argument. it's easy to get lucky when doing concurrent programming with locks, as in the plan 9 kernel. it's easy to get lucky in many cases, and yet have completely bogus locking. (as i rediscovered this morning.) - erik