[FreeVMS] pager question

Roar Thronæs roart at nvg.ntnu.no
Tue Jul 2 09:21:00 CEST 2013


On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 08:59:45PM +0200, Guido wrote:
> lead to allocation of a new page for the process that generated the page 
> fault. Maybe I'm missing something, but it seems to me that that is not 
> desired behavior. Buggy or malicious software in user space should not be able 
> to acquire resources simply by accessing invalid memory addresses. In stead 
> this should lead to an access violation and termination of the originating 
> process.

VMS memory management is covered in detail in the OpenVMS Internal books,
one of the latest is a dedicated book for memory management.

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-Roar Thronæs


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