Re: [MiNT] double-click crash

[Peter Slegg <p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk>]

On Tue, 11 May 2010 21:31:05 , Jo Even Skarstein <joska@online.no> wrote:
> On 05/11/2010 03:48 PM, Peter Slegg wrote:
> > I also see that starting Texel 1.6 under MP crashes Thing.
> >
> > MP is very odd, I thought it should protect the system.
>
> That is exactly what it does. Texel does what many MagiC-targeted apps
> from the nineties does. It tells the AV-server to access memory private
> to Texel. This is not allowed, and the offending app (in this case, the
> AV-server which is attempting to access memory it's not allowed to) is
> killed by the kernel.
>
> You need to tell MiNT to allow other processes to read memory allocated
> by Texel. Do this by setting the MP-flags in the program header to
> Readable or Global (if Readable doesn't work).
>
> Jo Even
>
>
Thanks.  Ihave to admit that I haven't looked into MP much.
I tried it and had the problems I have described and gave up.

I've never seen any discussion about these flags on apps before
so it never crossed my mind that this was all that was needed.

Feeling enlightened.

Peter