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- From: moacs11!walra@relay.nl.net (Waldi Ravens)
- Subject: Re: So many cookies
- Date: Sat, 21 May 1994 00:39:14 +0100
-
- In <199405201944.PAA22036@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu>, C.P.Briscoe-Smith wrote:
-
- > So, if Supexec() is to become root-only, how do you now find out whether
- > you're running under MiNT?
-
- Since the protected domain executables are going to in a different format,
- there is absolutely no reason to check if MiNT is active, if it were not
- the program wouldn't have run in the first place.
-
- > Great idea, but for a minor problem: it needs a way for programs to know
- > which domain they're running in... You can't check which domain you're
- > in until you know you're running under MiNT, and you can't Supexec() and
- > read a cookie if you're running under MiNT in the unix domain!
-
- If a program intended for the TOS or MiNT domain tries one of the ugly
- things, which are not allowed in the protected domain, it is simply
- aborted by MiNT (all's well that ends well :-) ).
-
-
- Regards,
- Waldi (walra%moacs11@nl.net)
-