Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752705AbXIAGLS (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Sep 2007 02:11:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753491AbXIAGK7 (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Sep 2007 02:10:59 -0400 Received: from sovereign.computergmbh.de ([85.214.69.204]:48590 "EHLO sovereign.computergmbh.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753489AbXIAGKp (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Sep 2007 02:10:45 -0400 Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2007 08:10:44 +0200 (CEST) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Robert Hancock cc: Clemens Kolbitsch , Chris Smith , LKML Subject: Re: Copy large memory regions from & to userspace In-Reply-To: <46D8C4DC.2080307@shaw.ca> Message-ID: References: <46D8C4DC.2080307@shaw.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 462 Lines: 17 On Aug 31 2007 19:48, Robert Hancock wrote: > > I'm not aware of any code in the kernel that does userspace-to-userspace > copies directly. Likely because there's rarely a need for it? splice(), sort of. Jan -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/