In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 06/11/2008
at 08:25 AM, Paul Gilmartin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>It has always struck me as bizarre that the OS supports running channel
>programs built by problem-state programs. This is secure only if the
>channel programs are in effect interpreted rather than executed
>directly.
It was secure when it was designed, since storage protection kept the
application from overlaying someone else's storage. It was only with
virtual storage that translation was necessary. It was only with MVS that
the protection key no longer provided adequate security.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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