RE: [MiNT] Security again

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

> From: owner-mint@fishpool.com [mailto:owner-mint@fishpool.com]On Behalf
> Of Johan Klockars
> Sent: Thursday, December 02, 1999 5:05 PM
> To: mint@fishpool.com
> Subject: Re: [MiNT] Security again
> 
> 
> > > > So, outlawing TRAP-hooking is not really an option.
> > >
> > > It's always an option. Tell me any useful reason to allow an 
> application
> > > to override the system.
> > 
> > The AES is a pretty useful application, atleast to me...
> 
> I think Frank is talking about 'the system' as in MiNT here.
> The AES and VDI is on another vector, so they don't override that.
> 
> They do of course require redirection of exception vectors, 
> though, and they
> are far from the only programs that do that. It's apparently quite common
> to redirect things like bus error, address error, divide by zero, etc.
> Since most programs don't know about MiNT, or are intended to work under
> normal TOS as well, they have no choice about this, of course.

They can use Setexc() for this. This works everywhere.