Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Ethereal 0.99.0 and Windows ME

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From: Jaap Keuter <jaap.keuter@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 10:26:40 +0200 (CEST)
Hi,

Hang on. The implementation of guarding stuff is there just to catch
these problems (on currrent platforms) _before_ they lead to wierd bugs
in old platforms. So this shouldn't be a problem apart from relating the
bug reports from old and current platforms.

Thanx,
Jaap

On Wed, 26 Apr 2006, Thomas Boehne wrote:

> On Wednesday 26 April 2006 09:26, Guy Harris wrote:
> > Perhaps Microsoft lied:
> >
> > 	http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/memory/base/virtualprotect.asp
> >
> > sure doesn't seem to imply that its functionality is limited on Windows
> > OT (95/98/Me) other than not working in the shared region, but allocated
> > stuff shouldn't be there.
>
> Well, on
> 	http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/memory/base/memory_protection_constants.asp
>
> they list some more restrictions for using VirtualProtect on Windows
> 9x. But PAGE_NOACCESS should be OK.
>
> > Perhaps, instead of aborting if VirtualProtect() doesn't work, Ethereal
> > should just drive on and live with the lack of extra protection.
>
> Running Ethereal without VirtualProtect on 9x might be OK, but I guess
> it will sooner or later lead to crashes and bug reports that we cannot
> reproduce/fix, since hardly any developer seems to have a development
> environment on such a machine.
>
> Regards,
> Thomas
>
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