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Author What prevent a user process from writing to arbitrary memory
Jeff

2004-10-26, 8:56 pm

Hi All,

What prevent a user process from writing to arbitrary memory
locations?


Thanks

Jeff
Måns Rullgård

2004-10-26, 8:56 pm

zhefu.fan@gmail.com (Jeff) writes:

> Hi All,
>
> What prevent a user process from writing to arbitrary memory
> locations?


The MMU.

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Måns Rullgård
mru@inprovide.com
Nils O. Selåsdal

2004-10-27, 3:57 am

Jeff wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> What prevent a user process from writing to arbitrary memory
> locations?

The kernels policy for memory management, with a great help
from hardware(the MMU).

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Nils O. Selåsdal
www.utelsystems.com
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