Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 25 Jul 2000 20:16:30 +0100 | From | Adam Sampson <> | Subject | Re: T13 SPEC and how to READ IT...... |
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On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 02:17:42PM +0200, Matthias Andree wrote: > So, there will still be ways to bypass Win98 or MacOS or whatever. When > there is no 100% safe way that the OS can prevent > RESERVED/ILLEGAL/whatever commands, why try to have the OS do it WHILE IT > CANNOT 100% SUCCEED?
But there _is_ a 100% safe way: block raw access through other methods. (Imagine an OS which ran everything under an emulated processor---it would be easy to trap hardware accesses and validate them.)
Linux is getting there; it's just not terribly convenient.
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Adam Sampson azz@gnu.org
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