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__clear_user(9)

July 19, 2007 - 1:23am
Submitted by Jeremy on July 19, 2007 - 1:23am.

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    NAME, SYNOPSIS, ARGUMENTS, DESCRIPTION, COPYRIGHT

    "__CLEAR_USER" "9" "July 2007" "Kernel Hackers Manual 2.6.22" "Memory Management in Linux"

    NAME

    __clear_user - Zero a block of memory in user space, with less checking.

    SYNOPSIS

    "unsigned long __clear_user(void __user * " "to" ", unsigned long " "n" ");"

    ARGUMENTS

    to

    Destination address, in user space.
    n
    Number of bytes to zero.

    DESCRIPTION

    Zero a block of memory in user space. Caller must check the specified block with access_okfR
    before calling this function.

    Returns number of bytes that could not be cleared. On success, this will be zero.

    COPYRIGHT

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