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Re: [MiNT] Memory protection



On Mon, 22 Feb 1999 19:06:41 -0000, Anthony Jacques wrote:

> OLGA includes things like passing pointers to functions, which will
> cause problems as the code will be in private memory that doesn't belong
> to the calling app...

And it's not only OLGA, lately I've seen a few TSRs which demands that apps
install callback-functions. If the app then crash or gets killed, the TSR
will crash the entire system... IIRC is Keywatch one of the more popular
TSRs of this kind.


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