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From: chanson@isis.cs.du.edu (Chris Hanson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Help --> How to prevent the visit from the dreaded guru
Summary: Please!
Keywords: Exec, Messages, Protected memory, MMU, Hunks, Caffeine.
Message-ID: <1991Jan7.033402.14474@isis.cs.du.edu>
Date: 7 Jan 91 03:34:02 GMT
References: <611@caslon.cs.arizona.edu> <1991Jan4.224833.24914@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> <17130@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1991Jan5.213642.16547@isis.cs.du.edu> <17135@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Reply-To: chanson@isis.UUCP (Chris Hanson)
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In article <17135@cbmvax.commodore.com> jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) writes:
>	Won't work.  A message usually has pointers to other areas of
>arbitrary memory, or has an extended structure (ala StandardPacket), etc, etc.
>As has been discussed before, MEMF_PUBLIC can't be used since each person
>has had a different idea as to what should be public and what shouldn't.

  Ahhh, true. I spoke before thinking there.

>	A better idea.  You _could_ allow segments of code from a loadfile
>to be protected (at least without many problems), and you could allow 
>applications to request protected memory.

  Could you then please consider myself begging for such a feature? Such
programs as Enforcer are great for develop-time, but if we can add some
cover-the-user's-butt type of capability to all NEW programs it is a big
plus in my mind. I mean, Why should my perfectly innocent program get
spammed by DeluxePaint3? If I can protect the OS from my mistakes, and
have my program be protected from the mistakes of others, I can sleep
a little better, eh?

>Randell Jesup, Keeper of AmigaDos, Commodore Engineering.

  What exactly does 'Keeping' AmigaDos entail anyway? ;)

    Chris - Xenon


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