Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: copy_from_user() fix | Date | Mon, 24 Aug 1998 16:09:08 +0100 | From | Philip Blundell <> |
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>Perhaps except emulators like dosemu, where there are some valid uses >of faults to let the emulator know e.g. which video pages are accessed? >(At least as far as I understand that)
The faults under discussion would occur only when a system call would currently return -EFAULT (ie when you pass it a bad pointer to memory). As far as I know this doesn't happen with dosemu.
p.
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