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- From: Ulrich Kuehn <kuehn@GOEDEL.UNI-MUENSTER.DE>
- Subject: Re: Security in MiNT
- Date: Mon, 09 May 1994 10:46:22 +0200
-
- Hello!
-
- |>What about making new system calls to store and retrieve cookies?
- |>
- |>At the moment, any process that wants to install a cookie in the jar
- |>must either write the cookie into the memory area belonging to another
- |>process, or remove the reference to that process's memory area, and
- |>make a new area that's larger than the old (which is itself sightly
- |>wasteful as it leaves old cookie jars lying around in memory!)
- |>
- |>If the cookie jar was administered by the kernel, I feel things would
- |>be cleaner, and it would be a step towards making MiNT more secure,
- |>too.
- |>
- That is an exelent idea! And even better, there wouldnt be much changes
- to be made, as a lot of cookie stuff is already in the kernel!
-
- Ulrich
-