Re: HW access allowed ?

Chris Wedgwood (chris@cybernet.co.nz)
Thu, 9 Apr 1998 10:51:31 +1200


On Wed, Apr 08, 1998 at 01:55:47PM -0400, David Schwartz wrote:

> I don't know of any operating system that bases permissions on each
> program. So far as I know, every operating system bases the permissions on
> those associated with the user that "happens to" run the program. There is
> no operating system I know of where it is safe for a privileged user to
> run buggy or malicious userland programs.

WindowsNT can have per-thread permissions. This is similar to VMS. (Only
with VMS you have a bitmap and under NT you have ACLs).

-cw

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