Subject: Re: Happy PDP-5 day

From: [email-masked] (Don Stokes)
Date: 30 Aug 93 10:29:30 GMT

[email-masked] writes:
> Nope, all it takes is the PFNMAP privilege. This allows a process to create 
> and map a section to a physical address range.
> Mind you, catching an interrupt in a user program is evil nasty under VMS...

Nah.  You need a kernel mode handler, but that can be small and just 
declare an AST to the process.  If you're running around with PFNMAP,
getting CMKRNL is just a (very) small matter of programming.... 8-)

(And yes, I _can_ demonstrate this.  8-)

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