Kernel bugs hide for 2 years on average. Some hide for 20
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Re: Kernel bugs hide for 2 years on average. Some hide for 20
#2Firefox bugs stay in the open for that long.
Re: Kernel bugs hide for 2 years on average. Some hide for 20
#3Millions of lines of code, all running in supervisor mode.
One bug is all it takes to compromise the entire system.
The monolithic UNIX kernel was a good design in the 60s; Today, we should know better[0][1].
Re: Kernel bugs hide for 2 years on average. Some hide for 20
#4Imagine if no one outside a select circle ever got to examine the code.
Re: Kernel bugs hide for 2 years on average. Some hide for 20
#5Millions of lines of code, all running in supervisor mode. One bug is all it takes to compromise the entire system. The monolithic UNIX kernel was a good design in the 60s; Today, we should know better[0][1]. 0. https://sel4.systems/ 1. https://genode.org/
Yeah cause windows is amazing
Or maybe macos? Ignore their freebsd parts of course.
Re: Kernel bugs hide for 2 years on average. Some hide for 20
#6Imagine if no one outside a select circle ever got to examine the code.
Everything is open source if you're skilled with Ghidra.
We call AI models "open source" if you can download the binary and not the source. Why not programs?
Re: Kernel bugs hide for 2 years on average. Some hide for 20
#7Millions of lines of code, all running in supervisor mode. One bug is all it takes to compromise the entire system. The monolithic UNIX kernel was a good design in the 60s; Today, we should know better[0][1]. 0. https://sel4.systems/ 1. https://genode.org/
Yeah cause windows is amazing Or maybe macos? Ignore their freebsd parts of course.
Yes. As far as kernels go, NT was pretty damn good.
So is Mach, by the way, if you can afford the microkernel performance overhead.
Re: Kernel bugs hide for 2 years on average. Some hide for 20
#8From the stats we see that most bugs effectively come from the limitations of the language.
Impressive results on the model, I'm surprised they improved it with very simple heuristics. Hopefully this tool will be made available to the kernel developers and integrated to the workflow.
Re: Kernel bugs hide for 2 years on average. Some hide for 20
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah cause windows is amazing Or maybe macos? Ignore their freebsd parts of course.
Yes. As far as kernels go, NT was pretty damn good. So is Mach, by the way, if you can afford the microkernel performance overhead.
If you include all the drivers too (which surely makes the comparison more accurate), is that still the case?