netdev - Re: RFC: Network privilege separation.

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Date:	Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:39:31 +0100
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Rémi Denis-Courmont <rdenis@...phalempin.com>
Cc:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Michael Stone <michael@...top.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC: Network privilege separation.

> What's the point of writing a parser (that could also have bugs) when the 

Sorry you lost me. What do you mean with parser here?

> kernel can do it?

And what does it have to do with the kernel?

> A normal DVD would be over 30 megabytes per seconds once decoded, just for the 
On many modern systems 30MB/s copies is nothing ... Also in this
case they tend to be cache hot, which makes them much cheaper.

Yes it would be somewhat slower, but if it avoids a couple of security
updates that would be probably worth it.

-Andi
-- 
ak@...ux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.
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