Re: copy_from_user() fix

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sun, 23 Aug 1998 15:51:26 +0100 (BST)

> Also, I still maintain there should be a mode to raise SIGSEGV
> whenever a system call returns EFAULT. Not doing so breaks the system
> call/library routine transparency, and lets bugs go uncaught.

Thats a matter for glibc. If you wrap the glibc syscall macros to do
a raise(SIGSEGV) then you get your desire. So its a non kernel item ;)

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