Linux: New Firewire Stack In Development
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| Ben Collins expressed some concerns about the decision to
| abandon the existing stack, "the tree is years old, and a
| lot of work has been put into it (lots of my work, I'll admit
| I'm being a little protective). I'm not sure that 'replacing'i
| t is wise, or even needed. Fork it, clean it up, but rewriting
| just doesn't make sense."
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http://kerneltrap.org/node/7462
Related:
Symantec Finds Flaws In Vista's Network Stack
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| Researchers with Symantec's advanced threat team poked through
| Vista's new network stack in several recent builds of the
| still-under-construction operating system, and found several bugs
| -- some of which have been fixed, including a few in Monday's
| release -- as well as broader evidence that the rewrite of the
| networking code could easily lead to problems.
|
| [...]
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| Among Newsham's and Hoagland's conclusions: "The amount of new
| code present in Windows Vista provides many opportunities for
| new defects."
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| "It's true that some of the things we found were 'low-hanging
| fruit,' and that some are getting fixed in later builds,"
| said Friedrichs. "But that begs the question of what else
| is in there?"
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http://www.techweb.com/wire/security/190700049;jsessionid=MWLALDT21M1...
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