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wavemodetoday at 12:06 AM1 replyview on HN

A computer spends the vast majority of its time and memory in userspace, so this tradeoff isn't as bad as it sounds.


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josephgtoday at 12:24 AM

The benefit also isn’t as big as you might expect. Most of Linux’s recently found security vulnerabilities were due to ToC/ToU bugs. Fil-C would not magically fix these problems.

It would sometimes be a good trade off, for some users. But I don’t think many regular users would choose to pay this cost.