On 11-Nov-02, Matt Sealey wrote: > Drivers run in kernel space.
They don't in QNX. > Write a buggy driver, crash the OS. Write > a kernel process in the Linux kernel (perhaps you could hack the > packet filter..) and BOOM-BANG-A-BANG. Kernel panic. What happens if > the swap disk is corrupted at the point you're supposed to be reading > from? BANG! Kernel panic, bluescreen, and so on ;) > > Windows no better or worse than any other OS. Many or most Amiga drivers are not in the kernel either, but as there is a single address space, it doesn't help. Regards -- Don Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED]
