RE: [MiNT] Security again

[Frank Naumann <fnaumann@csmd2.cs.uni-magdeburg.de>]

Hi!

> > 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.

The memory flags are for *compatibility* reasons. It's very bad to see
that modern applications need such flags.

Otherwise it's strongly not recommended to install TSRs *after* MiNT.


Tschuess
   ...Frank

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