Re: copy_from_user() fix

Philip Blundell (pb@nexus.co.uk)
Mon, 24 Aug 1998 16:09:08 +0100

>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?
>(At least as far as I understand that)

The faults under discussion would occur only when a system call would
currently return -EFAULT (ie when you pass it a bad pointer to memory). As
far as I know this doesn't happen with dosemu.

p.

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