Re: Page Faults Defined

2002-09-26 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
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.

Re: Page Faults Defined

2002-09-26 Thread martin f krafft
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

Re: Page Faults Defined

2002-09-26 Thread Tom Cook
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

Re: Page Faults Defined

2002-09-26 Thread Darren Salt
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 :-) -- | Darren Salt| nr. Ashington, |

Re: Page Faults Defined

2002-09-26 Thread Tom Cook
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 :-) All