RE: [MiNT] Security again

["Julian Reschke" <reschke@muenster.de>]

> From: owner-mint@fishpool.com [mailto:owner-mint@fishpool.com]On Behalf
> Of Frank Naumann
> Sent: Thursday, December 02, 1999 1:31 PM
> To: mint@fishpool.com
> Subject: Re: [MiNT] Security again
>
>
> Hi!
>
> > If an API an be defined which works well with MiNT, it should
> be simple to
> > make that work under the less protected OSes too. We don't want
> another of
> > those APIs that needlessly create problems for memory
> protection, for example.
>
> Hooking into traps make always problems with memory protection. It also
> automatically reject any virtual addressrom concept.

I don't want to propagate hooking into traps, but: TSRs *are* supported by
MiNT, and so is hooking into traps. If you have virtual address rooms one
day, TSRs will have to run in global memory, a concept which is already
supported by the different memory flags.

Anyway: the question is -- is it desirable to have a standardized way to
hook into traps which could lead to the situation that even more of these
beasts are written where it certainly should be discouraged?