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> These should dramaticly decrease the security holes due to bad user-space
> programming and so I really don't see why they should be excluded from the
> kernel... (with appropriate warnings/etc)
Because if they break standards (either paper or just "custom" ones), they
have to be made into options, and documented, and their interactions (set
or not set) checked with the rest. This doesn't come for free...
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