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VESAMTTR (recovered from Google) (DOSX)

posted by DOS386, 11.09.2007, 06:54

Japheth wrote:

> NT the pages which contain GDT, IDT, LDT and paging tables are protected ("system" PTEs).

Thanks.

And this protection means they are not even readable from Ring3 ?

VESAMTRR seems to "protect" (DPMI fault trapping) GDT reading, but not IDT writing - based on the fact that NT completely blocks all ?

Any benefit from jumping via IDT (VESAMTRR) from GDT ( RayeR's coming up solution ) ?

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