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From: lsr@Apple.COM (Larry Rosenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: cdev - INIT Data Exchange
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Date: 6 Jun 90 02:23:46 GMT
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References:<2695@cooper.cooper.EDU> <55045@microsoft.UUCP> <1990Jun5.142604.11826@asterix.drev.dnd.ca>

In article <1990Jun5.142604.11826@asterix.drev.dnd.ca> 
louis@asterix.drev.dnd.ca (Louis Demers) writes:
>     What happens if you disable the init and it is not loaded.  Your
>     resource is still there pointing to some area it has no right to

I would place a magic series of bytes in memory and have the cdev check 
that the resource points to the expected magic bytes.

I've used this technique before, but users complained that the file in 
their system folder was modified each time they booted, so it was always 
being backed up.

Larry Rosenstein, Apple Computer, Inc.
Object Specialist

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