[cap-talk] Gnu Hurd status? Power box?

[Jed Donnelley]

At 07:02 AM 3/23/2008, Neal H. Walfield wrote:
>Hi Jed,
>
>At Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:22:13 -0700,
>Jed Donnelley wrote:
> > > So there has been an effort to port the current Hurd to L4, but this
> > > effort led its developers to discover a number of shortcomings in the
> > > architecture of the Hurd, including in its security.
> >
> > I'm curious to know what the basic problem was.  Have any pointers?
>
>I'm a bit surprised that you ask this question given that you provided
>a fair amount of feedback on the paper that describes the problems we
>identified, namely
>
>   A Critique of the GNU Hurd Multi-server Operating System
>
>You can get it here:
>
>   http://walfield.org/papers/200707-walfield-critique-of-the-GNU-Hurd.pdf

Ah, sorry.  I hadn't made the connection.  Thanks for the reminder.

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