Ros-dev November 2004

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103 discussions

RE: [ros-diffs] [CVS reactos] FPU/SSE state saving on taskswitching, FPU and SSE exception support.
by Hartmut Birr 25 Nov '04

25 Nov '04

Hi Gregor, I've some problems with your changes. On my smp machine I get an assertion from fpu.c line 452. I think, it isn't possible to use KPCR.PrcbData.NpxThread on a smp machine. With your first patch I don't have any problems. - Hartmut

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NTDLL.DLL
by Thomas Larsen 25 Nov '04

25 Nov '04

Hi got a problem i Reactos The Kernel32.Def File LIBERY KERNEL32.DLL EXPORTS NTDLL.RTLALLOCHEAP And all the other def files where HAL.Somefunction NTDLL.Somefunction etc are in I know that NTDLL.DLL IMPORTS "RtlAllocateHeap etc." those funktions from a lib in rtl.lib but don�t know if thats the problem becures SCSIPORT.SYS allso import some HAL.somefunction witch allso are broke The tool DependX86 a tool use to find broke link in files can�t either find them and it a littel strange problem becures i should work microsoft allso do that kind of linking against files and allso use lib files to import Use the most recent CVS of Reactos and the newest edition of MingGW Allso tried differet option and differt compilere versions but seems to me theire must lay a strange problem in reactos og MingGw Simpl don�t support that... Crashlist of Files: Kernel32.dll depend on NTdll.dll User32.dll depend on kernel32.dll Atapi.sys depend on Scsiport.sys depend on HAL.DLL The Subsystem CRSS And Many more Anybody Help Me Please Thomas __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! - What will yours do? http://my.yahoo.com

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RE: [ros-dev] ReactOS and Viruses
by Waldo Alvarez Cañizares 25 Nov '04

25 Nov '04

Hi Rick: Well I don't believe that would be a protection at all against viruses. Why? If I where to write a virus and knowing that reactos has such protection that would not stop me at all. I could simply write a function to calculate the hash in the virus (or simply tell the OS to do it for me) and update such database. Look at windows file protection, virus laugh at it. I think the verification of the PE checksum is enough to tell if a file is corrupt and would be faster wich means a faster load. If you want to know some more about viruses look for the e-zines of 29A on the internet to find out more about the subject. Their articles are as advanced as those in phrack (the latest). I think there is not solution for viruses, users will always do insecure things and viruses will be there waiting for them to do it. Regards Waldo ________________________________ De: ros-dev-bounces(a)reactos.com en nombre de Rick Langschultz Enviado el: Lun 11/22/2004 11:25 p.m. Para: ReactOS Development List Asunto: [ros-dev] ReactOS and Viruses Sun will be releasing Solaris 10 shortly as a commercial product available for purchase. There is a new file system that is 128-bit, and is protected by md5 checksums, I think this is a great idea for reactos. I think before a program executes there should be a binary verifier that checks this checksum and then allows the program to run. This would help in deterring Windows viruses from attaching themselves to reactos binaries. Since ReactOS is open source it will be harder to protect a binary if there is an attack and a malicious user replaces a dll or an exe. Perhaps this can be done using a small xml file or a txt file called md5sums or something. Please let me know what you think.

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Please add pcnet.sys to the bootcd.
by WaxDragon 24 Nov '04

24 Nov '04

I noticed yesterday while installing ros from a locally generated bootcd that pcnet.sys is not included. Could someone add it to reactos.dff? Thanks! Andrew -- The cheese stands alone.

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ReactOS and Viruses
by Rick Langschultz 24 Nov '04

24 Nov '04

Sun will be releasing Solaris 10 shortly as a commercial product available for purchase. There is a new file system that is 128-bit, and is protected by md5 checksums, I think this is a great idea for reactos. I think before a program executes there should be a binary verifier that checks this checksum and then allows the program to run. This would help in deterring Windows viruses from attaching themselves to reactos binaries. Since ReactOS is open source it will be harder to protect a binary if there is an attack and a malicious user replaces a dll or an exe. Perhaps this can be done using a small xml file or a txt file called md5sums or something. Please let me know what you think.

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Idea to protect ReactOS
by Jeff Smith 24 Nov '04

24 Nov '04

With the issue of Ekush talking about sending us patches once they publish thier code and what not I as many of you are worried about being tainted, I have an idea, but I don't know how safe it is from a GPL stand point (I know nothing of the GPL) here's the idea, when we get patches that are questionable from *any* source, we send MS a copy of the suggested patch, and request they compare it with thier code to see if it is differant or the same as thier Windows code, if MS comes back and says it's teh same we delete the patch and move on... I know this idea sounds bad but we need to discuss a plan for any potential tainting and how we'd deal with it, please if you don't like my idea then please by all means suggest something else.

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Windows NT architecture
by Maritn "E.T." Misuth 24 Nov '04

24 Nov '04

Hello people, can you post some sources (links etc.) where I can find some info about internal NT kernel structure/architecture/whatever suitable for lamers and newbs like me?

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Ekush.com up again
by Ibrahim Damlaj 23 Nov '04

23 Nov '04

I don't know if anyone has been to ekush.com recently: > " We are also decided to remove all the non-GPL'd code from our source tree and re-publishing the project based on React OS and Wine. All the Ekush sources will be merged to the React OS tree; sources and binary both will be published accordingly under the GNU GPL and EKUSH.COM will be the official web home for Ekush OS. Hope it will eliminate all the confusion and misunderstanding regarding Ekush Operating System. "

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[Fwd: [ros-cvs] CVS Update: reactos] BUG 446 Fixed - NIC Realtek8139
by Gge 23 Nov '04

23 Nov '04

The bug 446 is fixec and can be closed following this commit The nic driver Realtek8139 loads and start successfully Regards Gerard

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core reorg. request
by Gunnar Dalsnes 23 Nov '04

23 Nov '04

Hi, Does anyone object agains: -moving every NtXxx functions into new files under ntoskrnl\nt? -moveing functions related to ob managed types into new files (thrdobj.c, procobj,c, eventobj.c, fileobj.c etc)? This will make it clearer where the functions are and what they do. Gunnar

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