Re; 4KSTACKS again.

[Tom Mitchell]

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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