Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: copy_from_user() fixu | Date | Tue, 25 Aug 1998 00:30:40 -0700 (PDT) |
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> On Tue, Aug 25, 1998 at 12:24:17AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > > All I'm saying is that if you're relying on EFAULT rather than > > SIGSEGV or vice versa, your code is completely, utterly, and > > fundamentally broken. > > If I have a spec. (Unix98) that says when I do blah with blem I can > expect EFAULT, then I don't see why I can't expect this. > > I don't know what POSIX says, but would like to know.
POSIX says that if you pass it a bad pointer, it's permitted to spin your tape drives to the tune of "yankee doodle dandy"...
-hpa
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