[openbeos] openbeos] Re: memset ---> user_memset ?
- From: Philippe Houdoin <philippe.houdoin@xxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 16:21:32 +0200
Axel wrote:
> The user_*() versions have to be used whenever you're accessing unsafe
> user memory. In BeOS, the memory you get in read/write/etc. hooks is
> already safe - but the one that got passed into ioctl() never was. Be
> never published how to make memory safe, so you can use the user_*()
> functions to access it.
Does it means that in Haiku drivers we've to use user_*() to access user memory
*only* for ioctl(), not for read/write?
And do we have for backward source compatibility something along:
#define user_memcpy memcpy
to ease compiling Haiku drivers for R5 target?
- Philippe
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