From: garbanzo@hooked.net (Alex) Subject: Re: pentium bug 8 Nov 1997 20:48:09 -0800 Message-ID: References: <199711090009.TAA14089@acmey.gatech.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Joshua Weage Cc: root , gnu-win32@cygnus.com On Sat, 8 Nov 1997, Joshua Weage wrote: > > This means that anybody can crash anytime any OS that runs under a > Pentium CPU. > > As the poster said, no special permissions are needed, the pentium runs > under > > ring 3 permissions!!!! user space > > > > This means that no secure system can ever be built that uses the pentium > CPU. No > > protected system. The OS receives NO TRAP!!! > > So what is the problem with a hard reboot? Your system will not be > insecure, it will just crash. The same thing can be done to a sun > workstation, not quite as quick, but it is possible to force a hard reboot > with no other available options to get the system back up. With filesystems other than FAT{16|32}, this can lead to data loss due to filesystem corruption, which is a problem. On any system this can lead to loss of whatever data is in ram, before your system crashes, on a server like system this can also force costly downtime. - alex - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".