Re: HW access allowed ?

Damien Miller (dmiller@prometheus.projectx.com.au)
Wed, 8 Apr 1998 11:19:58 +1000 (EDT)


On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Andrej Presern wrote:

> A _real_ OS doesn't allow you to shoot yourself in the foot if you don't
> want it to but you accidentally squeeze the trigger.

i.e "a real OS can telepathically tell whether you really intended to
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda or if it was just an accident"

duh.

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