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SubjectRe: copy_from_user() fix
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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