Re: Read-only memory on x86?

[Erik Mouw]

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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