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- Path: sparky!uunet!wupost!psuvax1!psuvm!bgt101
- Organization: Penn State University
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 15:50:04 EST
- From: Blaise Tarr <BGT101@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Message-ID: <92324.155004BGT101@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Why doesn't Amiga core-dump? *sigh*
- References: <92323.003545BGT101@psuvm.psu.edu>
- <1992Nov18.133139.21744@ifi.unizh.ch> <92323.182614BGT101@psuvm.psu.edu>
- <1992Nov19.084052.12588@ifi.unizh.ch>
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- In article <1992Nov19.084052.12588@ifi.unizh.ch>, (Matija Milostnik) says:
- >
- >In the message you could have a pointer to any memory
- >location you own. This situation CANT be protected, cause the system doesnt
- >know about it.
-
- That's where you would use the MEMF_PUBLIC flag. Quoting from the RKRM:
- "This indicates that the memory should be accessible to other tasks."
- Therefore, all correctly written programs use this flag if they want other
- programs to use their memory area.
-
- /// Blaise Tarr
- ///
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