Re: [Linux-ia64] Re: memcpy failure

David Mosberger
2002-11-14T19:37:07Z

>>>>> On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 13:21:59 -0600, Mario Smarduch <cms063@email.mot.com> said:

Mario> I'm referring to page faults and what handle_exception() does
Mario> - regs->r8 = -EFAULT

In the case of memcpy(), there are no exception regions ("handlers"),
so handle_exception() won't do anything. copy_user() is different
that way.

--david