Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 19:40:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: phk@critter.freebsd.dk (Poul-Henning Kamp) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans), ken@kdm.org (Kenneth D. Merry), arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sbufs in userland Message-ID: <200102271940.MAA28715@usr05.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <26415.983257037@critter> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Feb 27, 2001 07:57:17 AM
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[ ... kernel versus user space API's ... ] > strlen() comes to mind as an API where it can't use it. In the > kernel strlen should return an error code if it tries to access > non-accessible memory, rather than core-dumping as it does in > userland. That's just crazy talk. That's like saying invalid pointer dereferences shouldn't be fatal, just because someone was really, really, very, mucho grande, intolerably sloppy about calling a function on a pointer, without knowing what it pointed to before making the call. I would much rather have a panic, and have the kernel tell me "Hey moron! Fix your code, right here!". Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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