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Re: [MiNT] Security again

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Subject: Re: [MiNT] Security again
From: Guido Flohr <gufl0000@stud.uni-sb.de>
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 16:44:34 +0100
In-reply-to: <5BE5F52778B0D2118688080009DCE90D376D44@s2trheim.intra.gjensidige.no>; from Jo-Even.Skarstein@gjensidige.no on Fri, Nov 19, 1999 at 04:26:43PM +0100
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On Fri, Nov 19, 1999 at 04:26:43PM +0100, Jo-Even.Skarstein@gjensidige.no wrote:
> > MagiC has memory protection? Where? :-)
> 
> It puts some "guards" before and after each allocated memory-block, and if
> these guards are destroyed MagiC will detect it. The problem is that it
> normally doesn't recover very well.
> 
> Btw. could something like this be implemented in MiNTlibs? It would be very
> useful during development.

Hm, what?  These "guards"?

Anyway, I won't touch malloc.c myself.  All attempts ended up in
a complete desaster. ;-)

Ciao

Guido
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