Re: Newbie : core dump

From: Shourya Sarcar (sarcar@vsnl.com)
Date: Tue Feb 29 2000 - 09:37:54 EST


It was on Mon, 28 Feb 2000, Riley Williams typed in this..
>Hi Shourya.
>
> > What are the reasons the function access_ok (VERIFY_WRITE,
> > unsigned long * d) can return FALSE if I am passing a
> > temporary variable to d (which I assume to be in user
> > space.
>
>While I can't answer the rest of your questions, I can point out
>that temporary variables have a habit of being in stack space,
>not user space...
>
>Best wishes from Riley.

Wopuld that mean that i cannot pass any variable from within a function
(not even main() ) to ptrace (PTRACE_GETREGS,....). See
linux/arch/i386/kernel/ptrace.h .. near the lowr half.

>
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