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Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2000 01:52:01 -0400
From: Luke Scharf <luke@vt.edu>
Subject: Genreal kernel architecture.
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Does FreeBSD protect drivers from each other?

I've started playing with the Linux kernel, but my badly written drivers
are free to wreak havoc all over kernelspace and take down the entire
system...  :)

Thanks in advance!
-Luke

P.S. I'm not on this list, so please reply to me directly.  Thanks
again!


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