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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Having the data exposed to userspace via an API would avoid having to have a kernel module at all... Which when malformed wouldn't compromise the kernel.

[โ€“] ricecake 4 points 2 months ago

I mean, sure. But typically operating systems don't expose that type of information to user space, instead providing a kernel interface with user mode configuration.

It's why they use the same basic approach on mac and Linux.