On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 10:15:06AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 09:36, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > A few fixes have been discussed. One way would be to allocate
> > the space for the page when it is first faulted into reality and
> > deliver SIGBUS if backing store for it could not be allocated.
>
> You still have to handle the situation where the page goes walkies and
> you get ENOSPC or any other ERANDOMSUPRISE from things like NFS. SIGBUS
> appears the right thing to do.
I would tend to agree SIGBUS could be the right thing to do since the
other (current) option is silent data corruption.
Andrea
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