Re: So many cookies

[walra%moacs11@relay.NL.net (Waldi Ravens)]

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)