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[openbeosnetteam] Re: Change of heart...

  • From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeosnetteam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 04:31:48 CET (+0100)
> However I am not technically good enough yet to fully understand 
> where the
> difference lies between user-land and kernel-land... ^=5F^ All attempts 
> to
> explain that difference that I have read in the past were in vain as 
> far =3D

A simplificated overview:
kernel: you're running as a thread in the kernel team - you can access 
all the memory of the kernel and a crash is deadly for the whole 
system. No C++, no source-level debugger.
user-land: you probably can't hurt anything.

Adios...
   Axel.







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