Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 12 Aug 2002 13:29:19 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [patch 6/12] hold atomic kmaps across generic_file_read |
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On Mon, 12 Aug 2002, Daniel Phillips wrote: > > That's the whole point of this: it's not a bug anymore. (It's a feature.)
Well, it's a feature only if _intentional_, so I think Rusty's argument was that we should call it something else than "copy_to/from_user()" if we're ready to accept the fact that it fails for random reasons..
Linus
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