Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 25 Aug 1998 19:27:21 +1200 | From | Chris Wedgwood <> | Subject | Re: copy_from_user() fixu |
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On Tue, Aug 25, 1998 at 12:24:17AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 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.
If I have a spec. (Unix98) that says when I do blah with blem I can expect EFAULT, then I don't see why I can't expect this.
I don't know what POSIX says, but would like to know.
-cw
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