On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 05:37:05PM +0200, Graham Leggett wrote:
> Henning Brauer wrote:
>
> > It never can be as secure as OpenBSD. Have a look at the sources.
>
> "Having a look at the sources" certainly isn't a justification why one
> is better than the other. What specifically about Linux is broken as
> compared to BSD?
Really have a look at the sources. You'll see the difference very fast.
There are strong rules for code on OpenBSD, style(9) is just a tiny excerpt.
The code is just written with "correctnedd" in mind, and with paranoia.
Reading the linux kernel sources you'll see that there is big confusion,
much to much people coding and not talking to each other.
> > It's a matter of fact that qmail isn't as reliable on Linux as on *BSD as it
> > relies on some FFS semantics ext2fs just doen not fulfill.
> If that is the case then there is a bug in qmail - the software should
> be correct to the system underneath it, not apply semantics that aren't
> supported and say "it's their problem, not ours...!" when it doesn't
> work properly.
No, it's a bug in ext2fs.
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