Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Solaris sources | Date | Thu, 1 May 1997 13:32:39 +0200 (MET DST) | From | (Rogier Wolff) |
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Dan Hollis wrote: > > On Wed, 30 Apr 1997, Michael Nelson wrote: > > On Wed, 30 Apr 1997, Dan Hollis wrote: > > > On Wed, 30 Apr 1997, Michael Nelson wrote: > > > Really? Has anyone actually purchased it? If so, who specifically? > > Yes, several well-known CS-related universities have. The message passed > > through my mailbox a couple of years ago and I can't remember who they > > anymore. Sorry. > > The only information I have ever seen was that some university tried to > get the source code (for security review or something). Might have been > Stanford. Anyway, for various reasons they either weren't able to get the > source or chose not to. > > It would be nice to have a "from the horse's mouth" report of someone who > got the NT source code. Until then I consider it a wild unsubstantiated > rumor.
Oh. Are you talking about a security review of windows NT by source code inspection?
I had access to the NT device driver development kit once. In the day or so that I was looking into it I found a buffer-overrun problem in the postscript driver. The postscript driver runs at the kernel privileges level.
'nuf said.
Roger.
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