With an OS long prized by government organizations like the US Navy, US Army, Air Force Research Labels, the Department of Defense and many others, Sun has listened and learned from its government customers. Solaris 10 11/06 incorporates Sun's most advanced security features to date, many of which have been optimized for AMD architecture.more...
Traditionally, Unix/Linux/POSIX filenames can be almost any sequence of bytes, and their meaning is unassigned. The only real rules are that "/" is always the directory separator, and that filenames can't contain byte 0 (because this is the terminator). Although this is flexible, this creates many unnecessary problems. In particular, this lack of limitations makes it unnecessarily difficult to write correct programs (enabling many security flaws), makes it impossible to consistently and accurately display filenames, causes portability problems, and confuses users. more ....
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