From: Christian Cotte-Barrot <Christian.Cotte-Barrot@bull.net>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [Linux-ia64] [Fwd: memcpy failure]
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 08:31:18 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-ia64-105590709805423@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-ia64-105590709805421@msgid-missing>
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ditto.
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From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>
To: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Cc: "Christian Cotte-Barrot" <Christian.Cotte-Barrot@bull.net>, "David Mosberger" <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>, "Stephane Eranian" <eranian@frankl.hpl.hp.com>
Subject: RE: memcpy failure
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 21:52:12 -0800
Message-ID: <15827.14860.687278.896618@napali.hpl.hp.com>
>>>>> On Tue, 12 Nov 2002 10:29:23 -0800, "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> said:
Ken> The retrun value for memcpy doesn't follow the user space
Ken> memcpy exactly. kernel memcpy always return 0.
Why are you saying this? As far as I know, the kernel memcpy() is
expected to return the (initial) destination address. Perhaps you're
thinking of copy_user()?
(If it was up to me, memcpy() would be returning void...).
--david
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2002-11-14 8:28 [Linux-ia64] [Fwd: memcpy failure] Christian Cotte-Barrot
2002-11-14 8:30 ` Christian Cotte-Barrot
2002-11-14 8:31 ` Christian Cotte-Barrot [this message]
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