Re: [linux-india-programmers] Re: [LI] struct task

[Arun Sharma <adsharma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Nov 29, 1999 at 12:44:22PM +0530, sudheer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>   Earlier, since we refer to "u area", we need to pass u->u_base to 
>   copyin/copyout. But that is no more needed in newer versions and
>   linux also follows that. And hence there is no further need to keep that
>   absolute address in u area. Also is "struct task"  the one
>   keeps informations related to u area.

I'm not sure which UNIX you're talking about here. The only "UNIX" I've
access to source code is FreeBSD and it doesn't do it that way.

>   
>   Now i have a silly doubt. You say "0x8xxxxxxx", but what's the
>   significance of that '8' there. 
> 

objdump -h /bin/ls

and look at the .data section. Or print the address of a global variable
in a C program and you'll know what I mean.

	-Arun

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