Re: copy_from_user() fix

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH (allbery@kf8nh.apk.net)
Mon, 24 Aug 1998 21:11:08 -0300

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 :-)

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carnegie mellon university






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