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Date:      Fri, 9 Aug 2013 21:34:25 +0100
From:      Mindaugas Rasiukevicius <rmind@netbsd.org>
To:        Steven Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
Cc:        tech-net@NetBSD.org, guy@alum.mit.edu, darrenr@NetBSD.org, freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: BPF_MISC+BPF_COP and BPF_COPX
Message-ID:  <20130809203446.428A714A308@mail.netbsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <38CDC9BB-09C7-4241-8746-163BD15B80EC@cs.columbia.edu>
References:  <20130804191310.2FFBB14A152@mail.netbsd.org> <5202693C.50608@netbsd.org> <20130807175548.1528014A21F@mail.netbsd.org> <5203535D.2040508@netbsd.org> <38CDC9BB-09C7-4241-8746-163BD15B80EC@cs.columbia.edu>

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Steven,

Steven Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu> wrote:
> There's a one-word summary: *assurance*.  With the current design,
> it's easy to *know* what can happen.  With a Turing-complete extension,
> it isn't.

It is still easy and the concept itself is very simple.  I mentioned that
this extension does not make byte-code Turing-complete and the rest is in
your control.  Darren ignored it.

-- 
Mindaugas



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