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From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Nethack
Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1993 12:09:44 GMT
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References: <21678c$13q@klaava.Helsinki.FI> <216rcfINNj4@fstgds01.tu-graz.ac.at> <2192jh$njf@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
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In article <2192jh$njf@klaava.Helsinki.FI> torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Torvalds) writes:
> Yep.  Again, linux uses a slightly different way of handling copyin/out
> by simply doing it with inline assembly from the %fs segment, which
> points to user space when doing system calls.

What does the 68030 version do?
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