Re: User applications

["Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>]

On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Ralf Baechle wrote:

> >  What's wrong with cacheflush(addr, count, which) that actually checks if
> > <addr; addr+count> lies within the caller's address space before
> > performing the flush and returns -EPERM otherwise?  It would make the
> > caller crawl like a turtle if it wished to but it would leave other
> > processes alone. 
> 
> cacheflush(2) actually is supposed to handle things that way.

 Didn't I write it clearly-enough? ;-) 

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