Re: bug in write(2) system call.

Philip Blundell (pb@nexus.co.uk)
Mon, 19 Oct 1998 16:44:18 +0200

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> So we should avoid checking any pointers, whatsoever, and just go
>for it?

Yes; this is why we have the MMU to do permission checking. If you have a bad
pointer an exception will be raised and the kernel just has to handle it
appropriately.

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