Re: copy_from_user() fixu
H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
Tue, 25 Aug 1998 00:24:17 -0700 (PDT)
> maybe... I don't know enough about either standard to comment.
>
> I do understand what you are saying about syscall/libc transparency
> and for the most part agree - but I do like getting EFAULT instead of
> a coredump in some applications, mainly because I can write code to
> recover from this more elegantly that a coredump.
>
> And before you say, I shouldn't get EFAULT, wrong. I do get them.
>
> Oh hang, no I don't, I forgot. My code if perfect. Silly me thinking
> I might code the odd error...
All I'm saying is that if you're relying on EFAULT rather than SIGSEGV
or vice versa, your code is completely, utterly, and fundamentally
broken.
-hpa
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