Re: AUDIT: copy_from_user is a deathtrap.

From: Pavel Machek (pavel@suse.cz)
Date: Thu May 16 2002 - 19:00:33 EST


Hi!

> However, that apparently flies in the face of UNIX history and apparently
> some standard (whether it was POSIX or SuS or something else, I can't
> remember, but that discussion came up earlier..)

As far as I can remember, discussion was that standards *do* allow that.
I actually ran my system with -EFAULT -> SIGSEGV [it is one-liner!] and
it worked perfectly well.
                                                                Pavel

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