RE: new paper on direct access in C to the SGA

From: Goulet, Dick <DGoulet_at_vicr.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 15:30:16 -0400
Message-ID: <4001DEAF7DF9BD498B58B45051FBEA650146C3CC@25exch1.vicorpower.vicr.com>

That's funny, the system I crashed was an 11-780 running VMS. Took 3 seconds flat. Never did see the darn thing shutdown so fast. Boy that WAS fun!! :)

Dick Goulet
Senior Oracle DBA
Oracle Certified 8i DBA

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No, not always. See "OpenVMS". :)

Rich

Rich Jesse                           System/Database Administrator
Rich.Jesse_at_quadtechworld.com         QuadTech, Sussex, WI USA

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Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 1:27 PM
Subject: RE: new paper on direct access in C to the SGA

...
As I've said before, if you can read a memory chunk you sure as heck can write to it as well thereby introducing a backdoor for malicious code. ...

Dick Goulet

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