Re: [LI] Re : Modules

[Nick Hill <nikhilwiz@xxxxxxxxx>]

The Linux kernel code is VERY maintainable, provided
everyone follows Linus' style of Coding. In specific,
buring the GNU coding docs... ;-) In programming,
there has to be a tradeoff between access and
protection. Linux, allows access to data structures
for writing device drivers, so that it becomes easy to
apply a OOP approach to devices, and access them
cleanly and easily.

Nikhil.
--- CYMM <cymm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Arun,
> 
> Please explain...why would the kernel code become
> unmaintainable???
> 
> 
> alain
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Arun Sharma <adsharma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: linux-india@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> <linux-india@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wednesday, January 12, 2000 2:36 AM
> Subject: Re: [LI] Re : Modules
> 
> 
> >On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 11:34:19AM +0530, Ajit,
> Kumar   (IE10) wrote:
> >
> >> Security doesn't mean thwart people from getting
> something, as SVR4 does.
> >
> >Uncontrolled access to data structures from device
> drivers (which
> >is what modules are mostly used for) leads to
> unmaintainable code.
> >
> > -Arun
> >
>
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