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On Sun, 22 Jun 2003, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> >
> > > - if (get_user(lines, (char *)arg+1)) {
> > ^^^^^
> > > + if (get_user(lines, (s32 *)((char *)arg+4))) {
> > ^^^^^
> > > ret = -EFAULT;
> > > } else {
> > > scrollfront(lines);
> >
> > Why was the `arg+1' changed to `arg+4'? Do we really want to skip 12 bytes?
>
> It skips three bytes?
Oops, you're right. But my first question remains: why skip 3 bytes?
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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