COPY_FROM_USER

Section: (9)
Updated: 09 April 2004
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NAME

copy_from_user - Copy a block of data from user space.  

SYNOPSIS

unsigned long copy_from_user (void * to, const void __user * from, unsigned long n);  

ARGUMENTS

to
Destination address, in kernel space.
from
Source address, in user space.
n
Number of bytes to copy.
 

CONTEXT

User context only. This function may sleep.  

DESCRIPTION

Copy data from user space to kernel space.

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

If some data could not be copied, this function will pad the copied data to the requested size using zero bytes.  

ABOUT THIS DOCUMENT

This documentation was generated with kernel version 2.6.0.


 

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