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Re: GEM and memory protection

To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
Subject: Re: GEM and memory protection
From: Konrad Kokoszkiewicz <draco@mi.com.pl>
Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 11:32:25 +0200 (CEST)
Cc: Julian Reschke-FJR010 <Julian_Reschke-FJR010@email.mot.com>, "jacquesa@zetnet.co.uk" <jacquesa@zetnet.co.uk>, "mint@atari.archive.umich.edu" <mint@atari.archive.umich.edu>
In-reply-to: <vyzk978oyu6.fsf@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>

> |> The better solution would be to protect the shell against being killed 
> |> because of a faulty AV-client.
> 
> Accessing it in supervisor mode should do it.  In supervisor mode you can
> access all memory attached to any process.

That would be less or more the same as setting all GEM applications to
global by default. Besides, I'd like to get rid of switches to supervisor
except when *really* necessary.

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Konrad M.Kokoszkiewicz
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References:
- Re: GEM and memory protection
  - From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>

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