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- From: "Olaf Barthel" <olsen@sourcery.han.de>
- Date: Sun, 07 Jan 1996 12:14:15 +0100
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- Subject: Re: OS features
- Message-ID: <13213434@sourcery.han.de>
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- In Article <884.6568T450T344@cycor.ca>, gcaine <gcaine@cycor.ca> wrote:
- >
- > >gcaine@cycor.ca (gcaine) writes:
- >
- > >>Can you try that again? I may be somewhat of a bonehead today, but I
- > >>can't seem to figure out what you're saying.
- >
- > >Think about adding a corrupted gadget structure to a window or using
- > >an illegal pointer as a custom BitMap for a screen. The next time
- > >Intuition has to handle the window or the screen the input.device
- > >task will crash and with it all programs using Intuition which is
- > >everything besides some simple background daemons. So intuition.library
- > >has to check carefully all data passed to it.
- >
- > OK, I see what you are saying. That will add quite a bit of complexity
- > to all shared libraries, and devices.
-
- With faster CPUs this won't be quite such a big problem any more.
-
- > It also will make writting your own
- > shared libraries a lot harder too.
-
- Not necessarily. It just calls for better consistency checking and
- error reporting.
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