On 7/24/2012 9:16 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 10:05:00 +0300, Binyamin Dissen wrote:
:>Why have such a special list rather than merely verifying that the program
:>resides in an APF authorized library and was linked with AC=1?
Because a program expecting to be a job-step task may be spoofable, allocate
storage in a key where parallel tasks can update it, etc.
Sigh. I keep forgetting (wishful thinking?) what a primitive OS z/OS is;
that it provides no simple way a program can protect its storage from
meddling by others. z/OS still thinks it's running on a s/360.
-- gil
I'm not really much aware of non-IBM OS's, so I'm curious
as to what mechanism other OS's use to accomplish this. Can
you elucidate a little more?
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