WATERMAN%USC-ECL%sri-nic@sri-unix.UUCP (01/06/84)
Question re: vmunix/sun micro mmu : we have a sun (not yet upgraded to the 'sun2 board'). An unprivileged user can crash the system by generating a protection exception! (on vms one just gets exited from the current image with appropriate message and abnormal status.) Since it is not an infrequent occurrence to have some pointer misreferenced or misassigned this means one can crash vmunix-68000 a heck of a lot! Perhaps this is not the right forum for this question, but can someone explain why 68000-vmunix a la sun/berkeley has this problem???? -------