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- From: Julian F. Reschke <julian@GOEDEL.UNI-MUENSTER.DE>
- Subject: Re: MiNT security ?
- Date: Mon, 19 Apr 93 10:29:40 MET DST
- In-Reply-To: <3598.9304171308@csm.ac.uk>; from "Stephen Henson" at Apr 17, 93 2:08 pm
-
- > Here's a list of functions that immediately spring to mind which
- > should require root privs to use:
- >
- > Super(),Rwabs(),Setexc(),Floprd(),Flopwr(),Flopfmt(),Mfpint(),Xbitimer(),
- > Supexec().
-
- Problem is, that there are a lot of things that are important for
- applications and which can only done in Supervisor mode -- accessing
- the cookie jar comes to mind immediately (how about a new system call
- for that, Eric?).
-
- Sorry, but I don't see a secure MiNT in the next time. Performance
- optimizations, virtual memory, async. device drivers and so on should
- have higher priority.
-
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