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Re: [MiNT] fVDI issues
Hello!
> Well, any writes/reads done by the CPU are controlled by the PMMU, right? So
> if the PMMU disallows the access, the program, that does the access,
> receives bus error signal. This is why you cannot Fread() a file and
> overwrite another process (other than the caller) this way.
To say it again, it's a very, very bad idea to segfault inside the kernel.
That's very problematic for sure.
> As far as I know, the kernel itself is currently unprotected at all.
The text segment, not the allocated memory after the MMU management is
initialized.
Ciao
...Frank
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