Re: [TUHS] UNIX of choice these days?

Warner Losh: It's an abundance of caution thing. This code had security problems in the past, we're not 100% sure that we've killed all the issues, though we believe we have. ==== And if there isn't anyone who's actively interested in the code, willing to dig in to clean it up and make security issues less likely, deal with multiprocessing matters, and so on, that's a perfectly reasonable stance. I think it's an unfortunate result, and I wonder how much of it comes from a cultural view that sysctl >> /proc. (Recall how Ken and Dennis originally resisted Doug's push for pipelines and filters, because--as Dennis once put it in a talk--it just wasn't the way programs worked?) But as someone who is sometimes credited with removing more code than he wrote while working on the latter-day Research kernel, it's hard for me to argue with the principle. A lot of the code I tossed out was complicated stuff that was barely used if used at all, and that nobody was willing to step up to volunteer to maintain. Norman Wilson Toronto ON