RE: [MiNT] Security again

[Jo-Even.Skarstein@gjensidige.no]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Konrad M. Kokoszkiewicz [mailto:draco@obta.uw.edu.pl]
> Sent: Friday, November 19, 1999 2:18 PM
> To: Jo-Even.Skarstein@gjensidige.no
> Cc: mint@fishpool.com
> Subject: RE: [MiNT] Security again
> 
> been. I wrote a
> > windowed replacement myself, but it turned out even worse 
> than the original
> > :-)
> 
> Hum, in what way "worse"? By the way, don't you think that 

It was much slower, mostly because I made some serious errors when I
designed it.

> > > Nevertheless, I think there should be an alternative way to 
> > > communicate
> > > with such a program (DHST server), other way than the cookie 
> > 
> > Definitely, but who will use it?
> 
> You.

Sorry, but I haven't written any DHST-clients at all ;-)

> > I don't think Thomas Much develops TOS-software anymore.
> 
> So someone else should expand the protocol (before Magic 

I could talk to the author of MultiStrip, which I believe is the only other
DHST-server that works with MagiC.

> 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.

Jo Even Skarstein