Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: copy_from_user() fix | Date | Mon, 24 Aug 1998 21:11:08 -0300 | From | "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <> |
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In message <Pine.BSI.3.96.980824160949.7637A-100000@celebris.bdk.pl>, Wojtek Pi lorz writes: +----- | On Mon, 24 Aug 1998, Philip Blundell wrote: | > I don't think we should be worried about the performance of segfaulting | > applications. | | Perhaps except emulators like dosemu, where there are some valid uses | of faults to let the emulator know e.g. which video pages are accessed? +--->8
What relevance has that to Linux system calls returning -EFAULT? If dosemu is invoking those directly from 16-bit code segments then we have worse problems to worry about than how quickly it SEGVs :-)
-- brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering KF8NH carnegie mellon university
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