hi,
I am doing a course in embedded system designed and I have been
assigned a project named 'developing RAMDISK pseudo device drivers in
Linux'. I am fairly new to linux and i have little knowledge about
device drivers in linux.
Re: porting mfc windows application into linux ... If your Windows version of the application truely requires Windows ... to do in porting your application to Linux.... Neither Wine nor Winelib support Windows device drivers;...kernel activities.... (comp.os.linux.development.apps)
Re: Is Fedora, or Linux in general, vulnerable to a "paging exploit" like Vista appears to be? ... It involves forcing unused device drivers in memory to be paged to disk by allocating gobs of memory, then a program finds the area on the disk where the device driver code is and replaces it with exploited code. ... Could this happen to Linux?... Swap on Linux typically is a unformatted file system, but can be a file in the file system if desired. ... (Fedora)
Is Fedora, or Linux in general, vulnerable to a "paging exploit" like Vista appears to be? ... I just read a new exploit for Vista that in my mind could be plausible for Linux also. ... It involves forcing unused device drivers in memory to be paged to disk by allocating gobs of memory, then a program finds the area on the disk where the device driver code is and replaces it with exploited code. ... Microsoft has implemented a policy with Vista that only drivers "Signed" by Microsoft can be installed on Vista. ... (Fedora)
