Re: copy_from_user() fixu

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
Tue, 25 Aug 1998 01:04:24 -0700 (PDT)

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>
> Something Richard said though, does, or should count, is that almost
> evey unix implementation since the dawn of time has return EFAULT in
> some situations and changing this behaviour might just turn userland
> to custard.
>

I doubt it... Linux printk()'s if it ever returns EFAULT to an app,
and the only thing that ever did get it and work was ar (which has
since been fixed.)

-hpa

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