On Dec 9 12:55, Benson Margulies wrote:
> I assume that there's a very strong reason why this code can't just
> allocate a stack any-old-place (calling VirtualAlloc with first arg 0)
> and use it. What I don't understand is the nature of the constraints. If
> the parent needs to know, why not have stack_base make a call to
> VirtualAlloc with first arg 0 to allocate a brand-new region, on the
> theory that such a region is a lot more likely to end up with a
> corresponding hole in the child process?
Just an example:
void foo()
{
int x = 1;
int *xp = &x;
if (!fork()) /* Child */
printf ("%d\n", *xp);
}
What happens if the stack of the child has been allocated at another
address as the parent's stack?
Corinna
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