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- From: pagels@cs.arizona.edu (Michael A. Pagels)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
- Subject: Privileged instructions
- Message-ID: <28996@optima.cs.arizona.edu>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 18:19:07 GMT
- Sender: news@cs.arizona.edu
- Organization: U of Arizona, CS Dept, Tucson
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- Is it possible for a UNIX user program, running as root, to acquire
- a kernel privilege level, level = 0? Specifically during an experiment
- I need to mask interrupts for a few microseconds while running a timing
- loop using the interval timer.
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- Michael A. Pagels -- pagels@cs.arizona.edu
- Department of Computer Science, University of Arizona, Tucson AZ
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