Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 27 Aug 1998 09:00:24 +1200 | From | Chris Wedgwood <> | Subject | Re: copy_from_user() fix |
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On Wed, Aug 26, 1998 at 11:14:21AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> It all really boils down to the fact that I'd prefer to have just > one behaviour, whichever it is. And EFAULT is almost mandated as a > choice, so I'll just stick to returning EFAULT..
Agreed. EFAULT may be a broken concept - but moving away from this will cause more problems that it will solve.
I assume a personality flag changing this behaviour would be acceptable for 2.3.x though?
-cw
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