> System calls don't trigger SIGSEGVs so they can't rely on that when > calling read(). I'm not sure how they handle that. Usually by touching the pages before the syscall. (You can't rely on -EFAULT either in POSIX, its optional that it bothers to tell you and for example on MMUless it may well not) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html