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- From: Stephen Usher <Stephen.Usher@earth.ox.ac.uk>
- Subject: Domain X.. the way forward?
- Date: Mon, 23 May 1994 08:18:05 +0100 (BST)
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- I've been reading with interest the Domain X discussions and I have a few
- points to make.
-
- (1) I think it would be a very good idea to have a restricted domain for
- programs, ie. not allowing them to do nasty direct access things.
-
- (2) I think it would be a good idea to have a new executable format which
- works only under MiNT which would allow better a better malloc()
- implementation etc.
-
- (3) The (1) and (2) shouldn't be linked, though (2) should have the
- characteristics of (1), ie. there should be no way for the programs
- to access memory addresses they don't own.
-
- As for the new executable format, I wonder how easy it would be to make the
- ABI Linux-m68k compatable... Hmm....
-
- By the way, I've noticed in the latest Linux-m68k digest posting the Minix
- filesystem code has been tweeked so as to use the same format as the MiNT
- and Minix-m68k one, so no more need to run fsck under each OS to get the
- bitmaps correct.
-
- I just wish I could get Minixfs 0.6pl10 to work properly on my machine.
-
- Steve
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