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Re: memory protection



On 14 Nov 1997, Andreas Schwab wrote:

> Broken software deserves to be broken.  Any program that crashes due to MP
> is simply broken, because it accesses memory it doesn't own.  There is no
> excuse for this.

Yes, but it does so happen that lots of software like this crash the whole
system instead of just being killed by the system. This is not a sign of 
a working memory protection system..

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