>> The environment with which I am most familiar is VMS, and tradition >> is what guides secure interfaces. Inner mode code _must_ probe any >> arguments provided from an outer mode, probe the buffers specified >> by descriptors provided, etc. > What do you do when you're handed a bad pointer?
I forget whether it's returning an error code analogous to EFAULT or raising an access violation, but I'm fairly sure it's one of them (at least under the versions I used). Either would be reasonable, the latter arguably more so (just as under Unix, it would arguably be more sensible to generate a SIGSEGV/SIGBUS rather than returning EFAULT). /~\ The ASCII der Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML [EMAIL PROTECTED] / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B
