Re: Java RT requires access to physical memory???

dfeustel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
I just read in a web pub that the Java RunTime Specification
*requires* that Java have access to physical memory. Is this
true? This would seem to be a huge security vulnerability for
any OS running Java.

RTSJ doesn't allow raw access to Java objects (unless explicitly allowed by the implementation, I guess). See the Physical Memory Access in the document linked:

http://www.rtsj.org/specjavadoc/design.html

Tom Hawtin
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