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Re: Regarding meltdown/spectre

From Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@gnu.org>
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Subject Re: Regarding meltdown/spectre
Date 2018-02-03 16:17 +0100
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Hello,

Jonathan Sélea, on sam. 03 févr. 2018 11:59:40 +0100, wrote:
> How much is HURD affected by the Meltdown/Spectre bugs that has gotten
> alot of attention lately?

Just like about any OS that tries to optimize at least a bit: meltdown
allows to read all of the main memory.

There is a meltdown gnumach branch to mitigate that part, but my time
has been caught by the need for upstreaming glibc.

Samuel

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