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- From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: OS/2 Crashproof? NOT!
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.203412.23450@njitgw.njit.edu>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 20:34:12 GMT
- References: <1992Nov16.034053.639@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> <1992Nov16.164941.27113@njitgw.njit.edu> <1992Nov18.063745.6394@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov18.063745.6394@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> mlevis@ringer.cs.utsa.edu (Mike Levis) writes:
- >I don't have the SBOS2 driver, but since OS/2 drivers have the same
- >privilege level as the kernel (at ring 0), dangerous drivers (buggy,
- >beta, or badly installed) can knock down OS/2.
-
- Well, device drivers don't run at ring 0, at least they're not
- supposed to. They run at ring 2 (along with IOPL segments, I
- believe).
-
- >If your driver is installed properly, and its not a beta driver, it
- >probably has bugs in it. (of course, a beta driver also has bugs,
- >but at least you can be cautious knowing it's a beta.)
-
- The SBOS2 driver is still very much a beta. I removed it as a test.
- Martian Dreams still crashed, but it lasted about four hours (with the
- dippy background music playing all the while) for this to happen. And
- OS/2 wasn't brought down with it. For now, I simply turned off the
- background music in the game - now it doesn't crash at all and the
- games goes much faster. (imgaine that :-)
-
- I'm probably not going to put SBOS2 back in until the tracker program
- (or EMX, I don't know the actual cause) gets repaired for use with
- service level XR-6055.
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