A: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_post Q: Were do I find info about this thing called top-posting? A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? A: No. Q: Should I leave quotations after my reply? On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 08:23:03AM -0800, Karthik.G. wrote: > I would like to access the specific user location from the kernel thread. Yes, but *why*? > Can I temprorily map the specific page in the user process to the > kernel thread and read/write its contents? Not without major problems as you just found out. Apart from the mapping problem, there are lots of other problems as well: if you're using an SMP machine or have a preemptible kernel, the specific page you just mapped might be taken away (unmapped, moved to swap). > Im supposed to have a kernel thread running in one of my processors > while it accesses the currently executing user process in another > processor to do this . :( Why? Please describe the ultimate goal, not the step you're trying to take right now. See http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#goal . Erik -- They're all fools. Don't worry. Darwin may be slow, but he'll eventually get them. -- Matthew Lammers in alt.sysadmin.recovery
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