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 -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 2:55 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: new paper on direct access in C to the SGA No, not always. See "OpenVMS". :) Rich Rich Jesse System/Database Administrator Rich.Jesse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx QuadTech, Sussex, WI USA -----Original Message----- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------