Re: Where is that trap coming from?

[mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)]

martin%duskware.de@localhost (Martin Husemann) writes:

>You need to check the details of the system call, e.g. if I do a write(2),
>and pass a buffer of, say, 16k, but use nbytes = 64k it will most likely
>cause a SIGSEGV when the kernel tries to access a page beyound the 16k
>allocated userland buffer.

The kernel would just fail the system call with an errno of EFAULT.

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