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On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 10:12 PM, Dan Kimmel <dkimmel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
True. Memory leaks can be created on i just like any other system. On i,
you have to go to some great lengths to have one job mess with the
memory that belongs to another job. In 'nix, you can easily do that. For

Not really. You need administrative privileges and need to use a
special interface - /dev/mem for example.

'nix, all pointers are offsets from some base register set by the
operating system. For i all pointers are absolute pointers into virtual
memory;

Just like on every other modern operating system - including Unix.
Each process on Unix, Windows has it's own address space.

Heck, without address space separation, security would be nonexistant
- just like in the times of DOS.


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