On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, Olaf Hering wrote:
> >
> > Details, please?
>
> You did it this way:
> http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.5/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Oh, that's a separate issue. We want to have multiple levels of security.
We not only try to make sure that there are easy interfaces (but yeah, I
don't force people to rewrite - I sadly don't have a cadre of slaves at my
beck and call ;p), but it's also always a good idea to have interfaces
that are bug-resistant even in the face of people actively not using the
better interfaces.
So having good interfaces that are harder to have bugs in does _not_ mean
that we still shouldn't have defensive programming practices anyway. The
combination of the two means that a bug in one layer hopefully gets caught
be the other layer.
Linus
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