From: "Nick Roberts" <nickroberts@callnetuk.com>
Subject: Re: Memory allocation
Date: 2000/03/05
Date: 2000-03-05T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <38c30e0f@eeyore.callnetuk.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 89m3f4$msj$1@nnrp1.deja.com
Some may find it interesting to note that a (truly) secure operating system
cannot generally provide this specific functionality (how much free memory
is left), in order to avoid a thing called a 'covert channel'.
What it can, and should, provide, however, is a way for a program to say
'reserve x amount of memory exclusively for me'. This needs to be
accompanied by a way to say 'now unreserve it'. Can anybody tell me of an
actual OS that does just this, please?
--
Nick Roberts
http://www.adapower.com/lab/adaos
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2000-03-01 0:00 Memory allocation Andreas
2000-03-01 0:00 ` ada_95
2000-03-02 0:00 ` ada_95
2000-03-02 0:00 ` Oliver Kellogg
2000-03-05 0:00 ` Nick Roberts [this message]
2000-03-06 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
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