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- From: ruhtra@turing.toronto.edu (Arthur Tateishi)
- Subject: Re: Safety Belt / SLS
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.150050.23151@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
- Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto
- References: <1jlfkdINNebt@matt.ksu.ksu.edu> <ePaRXB4w165w@kf8nh.wariat.org>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 20:00:50 GMT
- Lines: 31
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- In article <ePaRXB4w165w@kf8nh.wariat.org> kf8nh@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery) writes:
- >This and several other quotes I recall but didn't save basically say "don't
- >bother with any safety features, with Unix you're SUPPOSED to jump out of
- >the plane without a parachute". Which is the "hackers-only" attitude that
- >is why (just as an example) all the Unix folks are running scared in the
- >face of Windows NT, which I guarantee you will not have this problem.
-
- You can also expect the Windows/NT "parachute" to stay open all the time
- and develop frequent tears in the cloth.
-
- I'm not afraid of Windows/NT. I just don't expect to own a machine to
- run it for another 3 years at least. Not to mention the disk space.
- I don't think the typical home PC user will have a machine competent
- to run Windows/NT for 3-5 years either. Can you imagine running NT
- on a 2 or 4MB notebook w/ 80MB HD? I can't.
-
- Linux is a eunuches and the original design philosophies should stay.
- Otherwise, you will end up alienating the people who got you this far.
- The standard, flush-the-keyboard-buffer-and-ask-'Are you sure' of DOS
- is not a common occurence in unix.
-
- I repeat, sanity checks do belong in system programs but I feel
- aborting unless there is a force(-f) option flag is the way to
- go.
-
- arthur
- --
- "The first fact to face is that UNIX was not developed with security, in any
- reliable sense, in mind; this fact alone guarantees a vast number of holes."
- -- "On the Security of UNIX", Dennis M. Ritchie
- Arthur Tateishi ruhtra@turing.utoronto.ca
-