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What prevent a user process from writing to arbitrary memory
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| Hi All,
What prevent a user process from writing to arbitrary memory
locations?
Thanks
Jeff
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| Måns Rullgård 2004-10-26, 8:46 pm |
| zhefu.fan@gmail.com (Jeff) writes:
> Hi All,
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> What prevent a user process from writing to arbitrary memory
> locations?
The MMU.
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Måns Rullgård
mru@inprovide.com
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| Nils O. Selåsdal 2004-10-27, 2:49 am |
| Jeff wrote:
> Hi All,
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> 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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