RE: [MiNT] ext2fs

[Jo-Even.Skarstein@gjensidige.no]

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Petr Stehlik [SMTP:joy@sophics.zln.cz]
> Sent:	Tuesday, May 04, 1999 11:42 AM
> To:	Jo Even Skarstein
> Cc:	MiNT mailing list
> Subject:	Re: [MiNT] ext2fs
> 
> > > Date/time cookie
> >   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > *Might* be a bit nasty, try without it.
> 
> I doubt this can cause any problem. DTCOOKIE just sets up two cookies in
> cookie jar and then exits. It doesn't hook on any vector, it doesn't run
> in background, nothing. Quite safe TSR. Well, it's probably even not a
> TSR, since it doesn't Stay Resident....
> 
--- But the cookies *do* provide pointers to internal kernel-variables,
right? It's possible (but admittedly not likely) that any programs that
access these variables through the cookie-pointers does something that the
kernel does not like. ----

Jo Even Skarstein