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From: "Durantez, Marc" <durantez@is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 07:11:42 +0000
Subject: Re: Accessing an arbitrary user space from a module
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>    First case: I am not at interrupt time but I am in the context of
>    another process like a deamon or whatever.
> 
> copy_to_user(user_pointer, kernel_pointer, size);

Should I understand that copy_to_user and the other functions of uaccess.h allow
to access the memory of any user task? I thougth they accessed only the
'current' task's memory space... :-(