VMMaker/Plugins newbee question

[Andreas Raab]

Yes, I think it should be mandatory.

Cheers,
   - Andreas

John M McIntosh wrote:
> This implies the security plugin is MANDATORY, which is I didn't  think 
> it was?
> 
> On 28-Oct-05, at 3:44 PM, Andreas Raab wrote:
> 
>> To which I replied that in this particular case I don't care  because 
>> I want to make sure that the plugin is present and  functioning. Do we 
>> really need to rehash the whole discussion?
>>
>>   - A.
>>
>> tim Rowledge wrote:
>>
>>> On 28-Oct-05, at 12:55 PM, Andreas Raab wrote:
>>>
>>>> tim Rowledge wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> I see that in the latest copy of sqWin32Intel. on my machine  
>>>>> there  is  an explicit call to ioInitSecurity() which is  
>>>>> completely  wrong; it  forces you to have the security plugin  
>>>>> linked directly  to the vm   core. There simply isn't any need  to 
>>>>> do this. The  plugin will get  loaded and initialized when it  is 
>>>>> needed.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Sigh. We've had this discussion a couple of years ago already  and  
>>>> nothing has changed since. So let me repeat what I explained  to 
>>>> you  back then: If you want to ensure that you can load an  image 
>>>> in  secured mode, you cannot wait until that image  voluntarily 
>>>> loads  the plugin (because it never will). You *have*  to initialize 
>>>> the  plugin automatically and you *have* to do that  before the 
>>>> image is  even loaded.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Sigh. We've had this discussion about five years ago and nothing  
>>> has  changed since. So let me explain what I said back then;  that  
>>> is not  an excuse for making a direct call to a function in a  
>>> plugin. How  about using the correct ioLoadFunction() call that is  
>>> specifically  intended to provide clean, safe access to a plugin  
>>> function? You even  commented it as the correct way to do this.
>>> tim
>>>
>>
>>
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