On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 04:50, martin f krafft wrote:
i am repeatedly seeing the term page fault being used in Debian in
the wrong way.
(examples?)
A page fault, despite its name, has nothing to do with
memory corruption or an invalid access.
It has quite a bit to do with an invalid access.
also sprach Anthony DeRobertis [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002.09.26.1322 +0200]:
i am repeatedly seeing the term page fault being used in Debian in
the wrong way.
(examples?)
libsigsegv-dev's description
various posts to the debian-* lists
It has quite a bit to do with an invalid access. As
On 0, Anthony DeRobertis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[snip]
A page fault, despite its name, has nothing to do with
memory corruption or an invalid access.
It has quite a bit to do with an invalid access. As far as the MMU is
concerned, it *is* an invalid access: There is no page mapped to
I demand that Anthony DeRobertis may or may not have written...
[snip]
Writing off of allocated memory causes a page fault as well
Well, I suppose that that would be useful if the memory is unrepairable... I
hope that it was insured :-)
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| Darren Salt| nr. Ashington, |
On 0, Darren Salt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I demand that Anthony DeRobertis may or may not have written...
[snip]
Writing off of allocated memory causes a page fault as well
Well, I suppose that that would be useful if the memory is unrepairable... I
hope that it was insured :-)
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