Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 Sep 1998 14:57:55 +0200 | From | Jan Echternach <> | Subject | Re: STREAMS: interface versus implementation |
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On Wed, Sep 16, 1998 at 08:11:58PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > if(*(u32 *)pathname='/dev')
> > I see an alignment trap too, but anyway... > > Not on X86. Also statistically speaking most strings are naturally aligned. > Analyse the calls to open() and you'll see that pretty fast.
But what about pathname pointing two or three bytes before the end of a page, and the next page is not mapped? If I'm not mistaken, you would get segfaults for valid strings.
-- Jan
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