Hi yellowapple! Yes indeed, the pledge() and unveil() mechanisms are still spreading throughout the SerenityOS userspace. I'm happy to borrow smart mitigation techniques from anywhere, as long as they make sense and don't have unreasonable performance cost :)
Since you mention memory access bugs, I should mention that the number of regular "C-style" memory access bugs I've had to debug in all of the system so far is in the single digits.
I've heard over and over that C++ is unsuitable for operating systems (and kernels, especially) but so far it seems extremely suitable. To each their own, of course :)
That's all great to hear. SerenityOS looks awesome; keep up the great work!
> I've heard over and over that C++ is unsuitable for operating systems (and kernels, especially)
I think that myth's been dead for a long while (see also: Windows and Haiku, both of which - IIRC - have quite a bit of C++ in their kernels), but hey, one more nail in that coffin, right? ;)
Since you mention memory access bugs, I should mention that the number of regular "C-style" memory access bugs I've had to debug in all of the system so far is in the single digits.
I've heard over and over that C++ is unsuitable for operating systems (and kernels, especially) but so far it seems extremely suitable. To each their own, of course :)