Re: The Case for Rust (in the base system)

On 22 Jan 2024, at 10:46, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:
> 
>> I'd love to see a default that anything intended to run with
>> elevated privilege is written in Lua.
> 
> Can you elaborate that one ?
> 
> Do you mean "setuid programs" or "500 root programs" ?

Anything that starts from an init script as root (or with otherwise elevated privileges) or is typically invoked by root and does not call cap_enter.

David