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SubjectRe: Announce: DinX windowing system 0.2.0
Hi Alan.

>>> Kernel stack is TINY. On iX86 it's only 7KiB or so. And when
>>> you'll overflow if you'll corrupt you system badly, BTW.

>> Doh! Ok, I need to learn more. I take it this means recursive
>> in kernel is totally a bad idea then?

> You should assume you have at best 2-3K of stack to play with.
> You might have more but then the IRQ handlers want some too and
> they run on the current kernel tasks stack.

I forget where it was, but I read somewhere that one should assume a
maximum of 2.5k of free kernel stack. It would've been around the time
when 2.0.29 was current that I saw that, so may not be relevant now.

Best wishes from Riley.

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