Re: ar exception in getname?

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
30 Nov 1997 20:44:40 GMT

Followup to: <199711292130.PAA14061@duracef.shout.net>
By author: Michael Elizabeth Chastain <mec@shout.net>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> With the new strace 3.1.0.1 I get just one "umovestr" error from ar,
> when it calls "open" with a pointer of 0.
>

No wonder ar always segfaults in the kernel.

<bitch_mode>

Personally I find the EFAULT/SIGSEGV distinction extraordinarily
arbitrary and quite annoying. Since POSIX & the associated standards
supposedly don't distinguish between system calls and library
functions, how can this distinction even make sense?

</bitch_mode>

-hpa

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