[698] in bugtraq
Re: Re: NFS packet blocking (Was Mouse EXPLOIT info...)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pete Hartman)
Mon Jan 23 11:29:01 1995
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 95 08:32:35 -0600
From: Pete Hartman <pwh@bradley.bradley.edu>
To: bugtraq@fc.net
Pete wrote:
>> Solaris 2 crashes alot
My copy of 2.3 doesn't.
Karl wrote:
>Solaris 2 is still pretty new code - I know the SVR4 code has been around
>a long time but Sun have made many major changes to it, I'm sure. Given the
>complexity of the kernel and the age of the code, they probably havent done
>too badly.
I was rather amused in reading the Sunsoft book _Expert C Programming
(deep C secrets)_ by Peter Van Der Linden claiming in his capacity as a
senior programmer to have seen Sun run Lint against the AT&T code and come
up with some 10,000 lint errors, all of which were allegedly fixed. At
this point, Sun says their kernel lints clean, and I have no reason to
doubt it.
We have an AT&T SVR4 or two on campus, and they are LOUSY OS's; they make
Solaris *2.1* look like a wonder of reliability.
As for security, I agree with Karl; I have yet to see a Unix that meets
my criteria of "secure", bar none.
