[geeks] Prolog for network configuration

[David Cantrell]

On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 10:27:30AM -0400, Joshua D Boyd wrote:

> To further make that situation worse, DLLs need to use the same malloc
> and free that the calling program does (which is not a simple thing to
> pull off), or things are pretty much garanteed to go wrong.  

Is there not a single standard malloc/free in whatever the Doze equivalent
of the standard C library is?  If people are writing their own malloc/free,
then I suggest that the problem lies with those developers and not with
Windows.

> And of course, I've always liked that NT had a fairly fine grained ACL
> system, for the FS at least.

I remember reading that it's similar to VMS in that regard.

> Now, what I really want to know was exactly how did things go wrong
> with NT?  I mean, they brought in that great guy from DEC!  Did he
> screw up on his part, or is it the stuff that is built on top of his
> part that is the problem?  

Things went wrong when:
  they didn't have a console, and
  they put graphics drivers in the kernel

That Doze programmers have this nasty habit of writing stuff that "needs"
to be run as root doesn't help either.  Even worse is the amount of stuff
that "needs" to run in kernel-space.

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