From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752830AbdLDBNj (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Dec 2017 20:13:39 -0500 Received: from sonic305-28.consmr.mail.ne1.yahoo.com ([66.163.185.154]:35800 "EHLO sonic305-28.consmr.mail.ne1.yahoo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751386AbdLDBNg (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Dec 2017 20:13:36 -0500 X-YMail-OSG: Ku6sZ50VM1ldX61GwtTiMr_P.pGkCJwUAPPt1jg8YDm0rtSpFhT3ZgkiAQtyjvS a7_7tASuq7bd6n1GnYHVzQ0aPPZccEPwyUDq31M_2rIbvbYEkQ_hWFn1TOGwT7zQaAYcimK9SljN Wcf83nLAu2URmQhOheBG297dv5X8TOa0AXSCU3NUgdQWEEdZ0O7znE6lZPDA97rUcoSQsqYbz6Q4 fGPijkazULIADuxf_mBdBM_AHK7NMt7GG7Pq647TCm5XPOZs55fcXw18DpO2pMaHauHbkDuICqXw dHA6mQcxAW8lg7hpEzk4dakONXre.JxMt6nFHj3wF1f6t7rvQWzZAD0WhrJaRwy._B6CtboV0xDd _PJnnK2RhhAQAv9h.cJ052hUuffAiwBiZLyEkg0bxlEZ8xCJe6eIaurz2492rbXHkEKtX01gip2d kAZBAhl8gPpkX3IdG3VUcH5iCxGIrDBBZSsOpGd59X5ziIjFFOajHj4ujPW5ATXXRrI_zkSqP.ip 4cEcZZVxAhg.LaAHqNAvVle3q1WC.LqkLBg-- Subject: Re: [feature request] Linux should never break, it should rebuild/repair itself automatically To: BILL ENGVALD , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: From: Casey Schaufler Message-ID: Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2017 17:13:23 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Language: en-US Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 12/1/2017 2:25 PM, BILL ENGVALD wrote: > One of the flaws in *NIX software is that a simple command can lead to > a nightmare, so I would like the kernel devs to write code that > repairs Linux automatically. I would like it if Linux became > completely stable regardless of memory failures, general hardware > failures, hacking, etc. I would be delighted to review your patches. > > I hope this doesn't start a flame war, I understand that it might, but > please be nice. But since most of us have fast computers, so C++ > support in the Linux kernel would be nice. You can do a lot with > inheritance, polymorphism and virtual templates that might be awesome > for Linux. C++ is a strong OO language (I think they started Object > Orientated Programming) and it has its benefits both in the kernel and > userland. > > May the shwartz be with you. >