> aq <aquynh@xxxxxxxxx> [2004-11-06 16:19]: > > hello, > > I think there is one question of Kannan unanswered: CS has attribute > of "READ-ONLY", and DS has attribute of "READ-WRITE". And we all know > that CS and DS point to the same address range (they have the same > base address of 0, and same size of 4GB). So they overlap, but how can > we still write data in DS segment? Writing to DS, so we write to CS, > but CS is READ-ONLY, so the problem would occur, right ?? > the issue is, "how you write data". usually DS is used for that (if you do not explicitely state the 'data'-segment register). Of course, you could write something like cs:.... which would explicitely make use of the CS -- and, hence, fail. However, ds:.... is used implicetely if not specified other. Ok? wbr, Lukas -- Lukas Ruf | Wanna know anything about raw | <http://www.lpr.ch> | IP? -> <http://www.rawip.org> | eMail Style Guide: <http://www.rawip.org/style.html>| -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
