On November 25, 2001 06:49 pm, Andrew Ebling wrote: * No memory protection > If you corrupt memory the whole machine will crash. Are you sure you can't > do what you want in userspace? This isn't strong enough, you might explain what could happen if you wrote onto a buffer containing the root inode of your filesystem. -- Daniel -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ IRC Channel: irc.openprojects.net / #kernelnewbies Web Page: http://www.kernelnewbies.org/