Messages in this thread |  | | From | tenthumbs@cybernex ... | Subject | Re: "Exception at ..." with 2.1.9 and 2.1.10 kernels | Date | Sun, 17 Nov 1996 23:13:43 GMT |
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On Sun, 17 Nov 1996 22:36:36 +0100 (MET), you wrote:
> No. These messages are absolutely ok. They mean that some user program > passed bad parameters to a kernel but the kernel dealt with that. This > means that you usually get an error EFAULT from the current syscall. > > The interesting with that message is that it shows how much buggy user code > is out there. Eg my tcsh binaries generate one line of output per command ... > > Ralf >
Sorry, I'm still not buying that. Getname comes from linux/fs/namei.c. In the code, it says that it is copying from user-space to kernel-space for "efficiency." Exactly how is this a user problem? User code doesn't know about kernel space.
I still say something's goofy.
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