Julian Elischer wrote:
>
> the kernel stack is a VERY LIMITED resource
> basically you have about 4 or 5 Kbytes per process.
> if you overflow it you write over your signal information..
>
> you should MALLOC space and use a pointer to it..
Would adding an unmapped or read-only guard page be
unreasonable?
The only thing I could see it doing would be panic'ing,
so it's not like it'd be possible to dump the process,
without handling the double fault and hoping it doesn't
go over 4k of overage (or you'd need 2...N guard pages).
-- Terry
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