Re: [announce] kernelhacking-HOWTO available

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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.

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