> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rob Walker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Sunday, November 15, 1998 1:54 AM
> please educate me, but doesn't NT allow outside video drivers into
> some pretty privileged places in the kernel?
I don't know, but are you implying that that would be a bad thing?
A security problem, maybe? Drivers in general have to have
a pretty high privilege level to do their job, and video drivers
in particular can't be forced to use extra protection gates or
do process switching if they are to have the desired performance.
Are there security holes in NT that allow unauthorized installation
of drivers? Of course, one of the ongoing weaknesses in any
commercial system is the need to support third-party device drivers,
with the accompanying risks of trojan horses and moles.
I'm curious: how is the Linux development effort handling the
danger that a contributor will build an undetectable security
hole into his code? This is made much easier by the general
nature of C and C++, and can be made arbitrarily hard to detect
by scattering it among several different contributions by different
people months or years apart. At least with NT, there's someone
whom the victims can sue.
Bob Munck
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