[Info-vax] Android development Was Re: OT: Larry Ellison takes retirement as CEO of Oracle

[John Reagan]

On Tuesday, September 23, 2014 9:09:13 AM UTC-4, hb wrote:
 
> Have a look at HELP INSTALL ADD /PRIVILEGED:
> 
> o  The /PRIVILEGED qualifier applies only to executable images.

> and there is a section about shareable images which are called from an 
> executable image installed with privileges.
>
> And there is probably more information in the docs.

Harmut is correct.  You don't install shareable images with privs.  If you think you can, I want you to turn in your VMS merit badge.

For such things, you write user-mode system services.  That is in the manual.  UWSS have some security limits imposed on them as well to prevent security leaks.

The generated code for a call is the same whether the target is resolved at link-time or activation-time (well, on Itanium, you might get a PLT or trampoline inserted by the linker, but the compiler doesn't really care other than avoiding registers that the PLT or trampoline might trash along the way).  For x86-64, you can go read the AMD ABI which is what everybody in the x86 world (except for Microsoft) seems to be using.