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Re: CVS commit: sharesrc



On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Gregory McGarry wrote:

> My notebook uses a data segment at 3MB.  I suspect a kernel with full
> symbol table would overlay this segment and I'm going to be see silent
> kernel corruption using apm.  Therefore, the default setting should
> prohibit the use of apm unless the user is willing to accept this risk.

        Is there no way to tell that the APM data segment would overlap
        with the symbol table? If they check is expensive then we could
        make it conditional (but in GENERIC).

                David/absolute
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