Re: [MiNT] mint & mmu

[mikro <mikro@hysteria.sk>]

> I just want to mention that's ist for most software enough to catch cookie 
> jar and tos variable reading.
>
ok, but in this point we loose the protection till the application calls
Super() again

> And MP don't help at all if applications still have access to 
> exception vectors and such critical things.
>
as I wrote, if the application knows what it is doing, it's ok. We want to
protect "normal" memory with OS and other applications at least. Yes, if the
programmer coded a buggy program which "by coincidence" rewrites system
vectors, we can't do anything with it.
 
> In supervisor mode an application can do anything it want. There is no 
> protection in any way. The only possible protection is to disallow 
> supervisor mode.
>
oh, that's true. that was only fast idea:) But that idea with SV, that will
work for sure.

btw -really offtopic- how can i set the mail client to reply into this
mailing list? in the header there's no Reply-To: info, so i have to
rewrite To: array with mint@fishpool.com every time.
 
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