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 :

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, 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 map

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 acc

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 ac