[PLUG] Morning MS Humor

Colin Kuskie ckuskie at dalsemi.com
Fri Apr 25 10:43:01 UTC 2003


On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 10:37:12AM -0700, Paul Heinlein wrote:
> 
> I can see where there could be some big performance benefits, ala the
> Linux khttpd, but I'm just not the sort of admin that likes to think
> that crashing the web server can mean bringing down the kernel.
> 
> I don't know enough about the Windows kernel's privilege levels to 
> know if that's really dangerous, but it certainly sounds scary to me.

Hey, this may be a safety feature.  If the kernel is down, then they
probably can't exploit holes in the server to spread viruses :)

Colin




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