RE: [MiNT] XaAES / GEM memory issues

["Konrad M. Kokoszkiewicz" <draco@obta.uw.edu.pl>]

> > process. And make this function publicly available. Hm....
> > 
> Yes. But only to the process that has F_OS_SPECIAL privileges.

And what is your proposal to make sure, that the process that can use
this, and was previously granted OS_SPECIAL at own request, is the AES and
not something else?

> > STiNG???? Uses critical error handler??? What for???
> > 
> I'm not 100% sure that it was this vector... STiNG use it for it's own
> scheduler IIRC. There was a heated discussion about exactly this on the
> MiNTlist a couple of years ago.

Ah yes. I remember. That was the privilege violation vector.

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