From: Juan Quintela <quintela@mandrakesoft.com>
To: "Luís Henriques" <umiguel@alunos.deis.isec.pt>
Cc: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>,
Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: copy to suer space
Date: 23 Nov 2001 14:14:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2ofltljcl.fsf@trasno.mitica> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20011120165440.00a745b0@pop.cus.cam.ac.uk> <20011120123915.W1308@lynx.no> <20011120160657.A4124@mikef-linux.matchmail.com> <200111211057.fALAvi288566@criticalsoftware.com>
In-Reply-To: <200111211057.fALAvi288566@criticalsoftware.com>
>>>>> "luís" == Luís Henriques <umiguel@alunos.deis.isec.pt> writes:
>> This to me looks like the main desire is to fool the user. It looks like
>> it doing something, but it really isn't...
luís> Not really... This may look like an old DOS virus :) but it is not! It's a
luís> fault injection tool - it's purpose (in this case, of corse) is to cause a
luís> very short delay on a critic process.
What is wrong putting a signal handler in your process for a signal,
and busy wait in that signal all the time that you want?
Later, Juan.
--
In theory, practice and theory are the same, but in practice they
are different -- Larry McVoy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-23 13:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.31.0111201637420.13674-100000@mail.deis.isec.pt >
2001-11-20 17:02 ` copy to suer space Anton Altaparmakov
2001-11-20 17:08 ` Luís Henriques
2001-11-20 18:41 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-11-20 18:44 ` Luís Henriques
2001-11-20 18:58 ` Hua Zhong
2001-11-20 19:39 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-11-21 0:06 ` Mike Fedyk
2001-11-21 10:52 ` Luís Henriques
2001-11-23 13:14 ` Juan Quintela [this message]
2001-11-23 14:35 ` Luís Henriques
2001-11-23 23:53 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-11-20 17:37 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2001-11-20 17:53 ` Luís Henriques
2001-11-20 18:18 ` Nick LeRoy
2001-11-22 18:51 ` Andreas Bombe
2001-11-20 18:09 ` Luís Henriques
2001-11-21 14:37 Joerg Pommnitz
[not found] <sbfa4d3a.051@MAIL-SMTP.uvsc.edu>
2001-11-21 10:49 ` Luís Henriques
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2001-11-20 16:40 Luis Miguel Correia Henriques
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