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Mark Russinovich on Windows Kernel Security

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the other-side-of-the-coin dept.

An anonymous reader writes to mention that in the final part of his three part series, Mark Russinovich wraps up his look at changes made in the Windows Vista Kernel by exploring advancements in reliability, recovery, and security. "Applications written for Windows Vista can, with very little effort, gain automatic error recovery capabilities by using the new transactional support in NTFS and the registry with the Kernel Transaction Manager. When an application wants to make a number of related changes, it can either create a Distributed Transaction Coordinator (DTC) transaction and a KTM transaction handle, or create a KTM handle directly and associate the modifications of the files and registry keys with the transaction. If all the changes succeed, the application commits the transaction and the changes are applied, but at any time up to that point the application can roll back the transaction and the changes are then discarded."

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  1. Message to Microsoft by bonefry · · Score: 2, Funny

    Just leave my applications alone !

  2. Hmmm... Upgrade to Ultimate Vista perhaps? by pegr · · Score: 3, Funny

    "If all the changes succeed, the application commits the transaction and the changes are applied, but at any time up to that point the application can roll back the transaction and the changes are then discarded."
     
    What, was my credit card declined for my upgrade to Vista Ultimate Edition?

  3. This is... by Organic+Brain+Damage · · Score: 5, Funny

    Windows Kernel. This is Windows Kernel on ACID. Any questions?

  4. Re:Not exactly "error recovery" by larry+bagina · · Score: 2, Funny

    I've been known to put my /penis into vagina.

    --
    Do you even lift?

    These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.