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Re: what is a wrapper function?
On 1/2/06, Avishay Traeger <atraeger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> A wrapper function is a function whose primary purpose is to call
> another function.
[snip]
> - you want to do something simple before and/or after the function call
> (such as checking arguments)
>
The way copy_to_user() (and copy_from_user() of course) wraps
__copy_to_user() is a nice example of this :
http://sosdg.org/~coywolf/lxr/source/arch/i386/lib/usercopy.c#L726
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