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Re: diskfs_catch_exception


From: Neal H. Walfield
Subject: Re: diskfs_catch_exception
Date: 09 Dec 2002 15:38:40 -0500
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> File system pagers are never mapped into the filesystem address space.  The
> filesystem pagers exist solely for user mappings, and for read/write
> operations via pager_memcpy (see libdiskfs/rdwr-internal.c).  As there is no
> mapping, there is no need to protect against signals when accessing
> them.

_diskfs_rdwr_internal creates mappings (via pager_memcpy) of file
pagers.  It also use a preemptor.



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