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COPY(9) BSD Kernel Developer's Manual COPY(9) NAME copy, copyin, copyin_nofault, copyout, copyout_nofault, copystr, copyinstr -- heterogenous address space copy functions SYNOPSIS #include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/systm.h> int copyin(const void *uaddr, void *kaddr, size_t len); int copyin_nofault(const void *uaddr, void *kaddr, size_t len); int copyout(const void *kaddr, void *uaddr, size_t len); int copyout_nofault(const void *kaddr, void *uaddr, size_t len); int __deprecated copystr(const void *kfaddr, void *kdaddr, size_t len, size_t *done); int copyinstr(const void *uaddr, void *kaddr, size_t len, size_t *done); DESCRIPTION The copy functions are designed to copy contiguous data from one address space to another. copystr() is deprecated and should be replaced with strlcpy(9). It will be removed from FreeBSD 13. The copyin() and copyin_nofault() functions copy len bytes of data from the user-space address uaddr to the kernel-space address kaddr. The copyout() and copyout_nofault() functions copy len bytes of data from the kernel-space address kaddr to the user-space address uaddr. The copyin_nofault() and copyout_nofault() functions require that the kernel-space and user-space data be accessible without incurring a page fault. The source and destination addresses must be physically mapped for read and write access, respectively, and neither the source nor des- tination addresses may be pageable. The copystr() function copies a NUL-terminated string, at most len bytes long, from kernel-space address kfaddr to kernel-space address kdaddr. The number of bytes actually copied, including the terminating NUL, is returned in *done (if done is non-NULL). The copyinstr() function copies a NUL-terminated string, at most len bytes long, from user-space address uaddr to kernel-space address kaddr. The number of bytes actually copied, including the terminating NUL, is returned in *done (if done is non-NULL). RETURN VALUES The copy functions return 0 on success. All but copystr() return EFAULT if a bad address is encountered. The copyin_nofault() and copyout_nofault() functions return EFAULT if a page fault occurs. The copystr() and copyinstr() functions return ENAMETOOLONG if the string is longer than len bytes. SEE ALSO fetch(9), store(9) BSD May 11, 2020 BSD
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