Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 May 2001 14:20:55 +0200 | From | Erik Mouw <> | Subject | Re: Read-only memory on x86? |
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On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 05:10:33AM -0700, A Dell'elce wrote: > Can I set a memory area or "page" to be read-only, i.e. > generate an interrupt when writing is attempted to a certain > page/area?
man mmap and catch SIGSEGV. Or see how the DOSemu VGA emulator manipulates the virtual VGA memory.
Erik
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