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Amiga and the MMU (Re: Suggestion for 1.4)

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From: Peter da Silva
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 1988 05:45
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The canonical answer: make all memory not allocated MEMF_PUBLIC read-only
to all other tasks.

The canonical problem: people using statically allocated data for stuff that
other tasks have to write (for example, FileInfoBlocks).

The solution: how about trying it and seeing how much stuff breaks.

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From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Amiga and the MMU (Re: Suggestion for 1.4)
Summary: Round and round the mulberry bush.
Message-ID: <2110@sugar.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jun 88 05:45:02 GMT
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Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX
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