Hello,
x86 actually has 4 protection levels that OS designers can play with,
but Linux and every other UNIX, as far as I know, only use 0 (kernel)
and 3 (user). The purpose is to disallow certain untrusted programs from
performing certain dangerous operations without being somehow checked by
On Mon, 2 Sep 2002, John wrote:
> I know, people have already said that. However, it yields
> results that are clearly wrong. Nobody would think version
> 0.001 was the same as version 0.1.
ehh??? If I am doing development, using machine assisted
numbering, and find versions with:
4.011 and
On Monday 02 September 2002 12:07, Chip Turner wrote:
> That's strictly opinion. The people (including non-Red Hat employees)
> that work deeply with RPM daily don't really agree with your opinion.
>
>
> RPM treats version components as integers, not floating point
> numbers. That's the core o
John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Saturday 31 August 2002 23:10, Chip Turner wrote:
> > > Try reporting that as a bug and see what the response is.
> >
> > But it isn't a bug. It's just how the algorithm works.
>
> A badly-chosen algorithm is still a bug.
That's strictly opinion. The peo
On Saturday 31 August 2002 21:09, P wrote:
> It's interesting that I have the same observation on rh 7.3 ... whenever
I've
> observed my swap activity, it's always zero. But, your question about
> executing "mkswap" implies that the user is supposed to do this ... I don't
> understand that, s
On Sunday 01 September 2002 14:32, Peter Bowen wrote:
> So, no this isn't a bug, nor is it broken-by-design. If you can come up
> with an algorithm that does a better job and is as fast as the current
> one, please post it. The current one is a step above some of the other
> algorithms available
On Saturday 31 August 2002 23:10, Chip Turner wrote:
> > Try reporting that as a bug and see what the response is.
>
>
>
> But it isn't a bug. It's just how the algorithm works.
>
>
A badly-chosen algorithm is still a bug.
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Cheers
John.
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hi,
what is the use of two privilege level ?
is there any performance is increase if we implement
some
program in the kernel space ?
in linux please tell me in which space ( user or
kernel )
the X11 is implemented ?
why i am asking this question means if sometimes the
system
hangs , only the s
