On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 12:54:26PM -0800, Om wrote: > hi, > > How should I copy one structure to another one, when the > definition includes one atomic variable? > > struct kobject is an example. Why would you ever want to copy a kobject from one place to another? That's guaranteeing a world of hurt when you try to tear down that kobject (or it's copy) sometime later. Other than that, it's fine to use memcpy to copy a atomic variable as long as you are sure no one else is trying to modify it at that moment in time (and for a live kobject, you can never be assured of that, sorry.) thanks, greg k-h -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
