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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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