Re: [MiNT] ext2fs

[Petr Stehlik <joy@sophics.zln.cz>]

> > > Why not just produce those cookies from the kernel?
> 
> Most people's objections didn't convince me it was wrong, but then
> on this list, a few people are considered as gods and when they speak,
> people immediately agree without questioning them.  Pitty...

Well, some of the objections were reasonable: the cookies provide pointers
to two short int variables in kernel that keep current time and date.
When/if those two short int variables are removed the cookies can't work.
Guido (or someone else) said those variables would be removed soon. I
don't know why the variables should be removed, though.

The other reason was based on the memory protection and virtual address
space. If the FreeMiNT kernel disappears from application's address space
then the cookies would really be useless. Though these cookies are usually
used by TSRs that are started before MiNT and thus are in the same address
space as the kernel.

Petr