Re; 4KSTACKS again.
Tom Mitchell
mitch48 at sbcglobal.net
Sat Apr 17 20:33:40 UTC 2004
On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 11:25:45AM -0400, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 04:54:53PM -0700, Andy Ross wrote:
> > Now, maybe the idea here is activism: using the FC2 kernel as a
....
> don't expect proprietary vendors to worry too much until FC2 is out there,
> supporting betas is hard work with little reward for them.
Alan,
I am curious why the change to 4K stacks was made.
I assume from comments that it permits mapping an invalid page
to trap overflow errors.
Is there a list archive that has a summary on this and some
information about how one might take advantage of this change?
Thanks,
mitch
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