Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: bug in write(2) system call. | Date | Mon, 19 Oct 1998 16:44:18 +0200 | From | Philip Blundell <> |
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> So we should avoid checking any pointers, whatsoever, and just go >for it?
Yes; this is why we have the MMU to do permission checking. If you have a bad pointer an exception will be raised and the kernel just has to handle it appropriately.
p.
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