Hey folks,
i have been writing software about 6 year since i "finnished" my

university course. OpenBSD has always been impressive to my eyes.

Since correctness/security is "conditio sine qua non", i disagree as a

group of developer has it as goal. Goal should be performance,

portability usability. But correctness/security should be a

requirement.
I am very confident about software i wrote. But in order to obtain

paramount performance i am taking a totally different approach. Since

process and even thread are not a good ideia. i am working now to

learn a little bit more about SDL (specification and description

language). Not only my systems became faster, a lot faster but also,

very, very, very modular.
I am not in kernel design/implementation, so i would like to hear from

you all about an approach driven by this method.
I was thinking about the advantages of having very modular part of a

OS, being executed on each processor (of a SMP system), and like. It

sounds very interesting to me.
thanks.
On Feb 17, 2008 9:03 AM, Mayuresh Kathe  wrote:

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> Hi,

>

> NOTE: No intention to behave like a troll.

>

> I've been following the "multi-threaded ssh/scp" thread and read Ted's

> comment that he's stopped working on the kernel threads code because

> he doesn't have the time for it nor does he need it any more.

> Also that multi-threaded ssh/scp would weaken security features within the OS.

>

> It just led me to ponder, what is OpenBSD's ultimate goal?

> Is it just to become the worlds most secure OS with as few remote

> holes in the default install?

> Shouldn't it also be our goal to be the best UNIX-like operating

> system which is in tune with the current needs of users?

>

> It would have been great to have a threaded kernel, there are

> developer's I'm gathering around who wanted to change the TCP/IP stack

> to make it higher performance, more like "Project FireEngine" under

> Solaris 10.

>

> OpenBSD is an OS with amazing security and stability, but it has too

> few modern features.

>

> It would be great if developers also start working on improving the

> features currently offered by OpenBSD.

> Else, we would end up becoming the world's most secure OS which is

> used by just a handful of us faithful users.

>

> You might ask what right do I have for this rant, what am I doing for OpenBSD?

> Well I can't donate code directly as I'm a Java programmer and my C is

> quite rusty (haven't coded in it in over 7 years).

> But, yes, I do donate my time and money, indirectly, by recruiting

> good C developers to the cause as well as buying stuff for core

> developers off their wish lists.

>

> Hope newer features get added, not that I'm unhappy with the OS (it

> does almost everything I need an OS to do for me), but it would be

> great if we had *more* smart developers and a wider base of good users

> who get attracted to the OS for its robustness as well as feature-set.

>

> Best,

>

> ~Mayuresh