From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,6394e5e171f847d1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-09-06 06:46:31 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!newsfeed.wirehub.nl!195.129.110.18.MISMATCH!bnewspeer00.bru.ops.eu.uu.net!emea.uu.net!newsfeed.siemens.de!news.mch.sbs.de!not-for-mail From: Alfred Hilscher Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada OS Kernel features Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2001 15:45:47 +0200 Organization: Siemens AG Message-ID: <3B977E0B.657D09DA@icn.siemens.de> References: <9n4euv$t9m$1@slb6.atl.mindspring.net> <3B964C7A.BC04374E@icn.siemens.de> <9n5o9n$37a$1@slb7.atl.mindspring.net> <3%ul7.3362$9z1.440040@news6-win.server.ntlworld.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 139.21.122.158 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:12794 Date: 2001-09-06T15:45:47+02:00 List-Id: Larry Kilgallen wrote: > > I really don't get why a driver must have access to system structures or > > atleast those in kernel space, can you explain this? > > A driver has access to raw hardware. Therefore it necessarily has > access to the system -- it could rewrite the copy of the OS on disk > if it chose. Yes, but only a hacker would do it. A serious driver developer does only what makes sense. No driver for NIC would offer the possibility to format the disk, or do you know one ? ;-)