On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 02:17:42PM +0200, Matthias Andree wrote:
> So, there will still be ways to bypass Win98 or MacOS or whatever. When
> there is no 100% safe way that the OS can prevent
> RESERVED/ILLEGAL/whatever commands, why try to have the OS do it WHILE IT
> CANNOT 100% SUCCEED?
But there _is_ a 100% safe way: block raw access through other methods.
(Imagine an OS which ran everything under an emulated processor---it would
be easy to trap hardware accesses and validate them.)
Linux is getting there; it's just not terribly convenient.
--Adam Sampson azz@gnu.org
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