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Re: architectures that prevent freezing

  • Subject: Re: architectures that prevent freezing
  • From: Charles Srstka <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 15:40:58 -0500
On May 11, 2012, at 12:55 PM, Jens Alfke wrote:

> So a regular user process can permanently lock up the display, requiring a reboot, just by executing some bad GPU code?! That’s kind of a bad privilege violation and could be considered a DoS exploit.

On the old 2008 non-unibody MacBook Pro that I used to have with the NVidia 8600M GT in it, you could do that just by executing some *good* GPU code.

Charles

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 >Re: architectures that prevent freezing (From: Jens Alfke <email@hidden>)

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