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Re: [MiNT] fVDI issues

> Does MiNT currently do anything about pointers passed to system calls
> under memory protection, by the way?

What, for example?

> Or will for example an Fread to
> memory not owned by the calling process succeed?

No, it won't (the MMU disallows the access).

> Actually, it would make sense to make parts of the VDI actually
> execute
> in user mode. It's unfortunate that we're stuck with the Trap #2.

Yes, the same for the AES. Ideally, the AES should be a bunch of shared
libraries executing completely in user mode, plus one screen manager
process, perhaps. This would solve memory access problems to a great extent,
I suppose.

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