Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: AUDIT: copy_from_user is a deathtrap. | Date | Sat, 18 May 2002 03:57:33 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> > and foolish to program without reading interface specifications > > or the code. It did not occur to me to shift the blame onto > > copy_from_user creators. > > Please send me your mailing address. I shall send you a copy of > "Design of Everyday Things" (Donald A Norman). You should not blame > yourself for others' bad design.
By extrapolation perhaps you'd also care to reimplement it in terms of exceptions, refcount the objects with an object based primitive to do the transfers, garbage collect to remove memory leaks and implement strings and variable size buffers as base objects.
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