Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 25 Aug 1998 17:27:45 +1000 | | From | Richard Gooch <> | | Subject | Re: copy_from_user() fixu |
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H. Peter Anvin writes: > > 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.
Ignoring Unix98, maybe what you say is true. Nevertheless, there is no justification for changing the existing default behaviour.
Regards,
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