From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 8 00:56:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA16356 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 8 Sep 1997 00:56:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wakky.dyn.ml.org (lee@1Cust72.tnt1.manassas.va.da.uu.net [153.37.113.72]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA16348; Mon, 8 Sep 1997 00:56:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from lee@localhost) by wakky.dyn.ml.org (8.8.5/8.8.3) id DAA06361; Mon, 8 Sep 1997 03:56:12 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <19970908035612.36939@wakky.dyn.ml.org> Date: Mon, 8 Sep 1997 03:56:12 -0400 From: Lee Cremeans To: Josef Karthauser Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Divert sockets.. Reply-To: hcremean@vt.edu References: <1.5.4.32.19970907223328.008be880@mail.mindspring.com> <199709080052.KAA00380@lofty.ist.flinders.edu.au> <19970908081913.36000@pavilion.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.79e In-Reply-To: <19970908081913.36000@pavilion.net>; from Josef Karthauser on Mon, Sep 08, 1997 at 08:19:13AM +0100 X-OS: FreeBSD 2.2-RELEASE X-Evil: microsoft.com Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk [crossposted to -chat] On Mon, Sep 08, 1997 at 08:19:13AM +0100, Josef Karthauser wrote: > On Mon, Sep 08, 1997 at 10:22:23AM +0930, Daniel J. O'Connor wrote: > > > to get messages to and from the kernel? > > Yeah, the Amiga had the 'advantage' of having no memory protection(at > > all), so you could just pass pointers around =) > > That's not entirely true. Is it? The 4000 had memory protection and the > same O/S. (a500 ran 68000, a4000 ran 68030/40). Well, the 68000 had user and supervisor modes, but no page-level protection like the 030 and above (and the 68020 with the 68851 MMU)--and most other processors with demand paging--do. -- Lee C. -- Manassas, VA, USA (WakkyMouse on DALnet #watertower) A! JW223 YWD++^i WK+++r P&B++ SL++^i GDF B&M KK--i MD+++i P++ I++++ Did $++ E5/10/70/3c/73ac Ee34/1/36 H2 PonPippi Ay77 M | hcremean (at) vt.edu FreeBSD/Linux/Unix hacker...Win95 and M$ evil! (go see www.freebsd.org) My home page: http://wakky.dyn.ml.org/~lee | finger me for geek code