From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject:	Re: Win 2000 & Djgpp
Date:	Thu, 17 Feb 2000 10:28:25 +0200
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On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Damian Yerrick wrote:

> >This has never happened to me. The only time I've seen Win2k totally crash
> >is if a full-screen DOS-app causes a fault in ntvdm - in which case, the
> >whole system does die.
> 
> Major security hole.  To bring down the system, just bring in your
> intentionally buggy DJGPP app.

Actually, it is much harder to crash Windows (both 9X and NT) with a
DJGPP application than with a Windows application.  DOS apps are
insulated from the system much better than Windows apps.

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