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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init
    Mikael Pettersson wrote:
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    > [+] Speaking as a hacker on a runtime system for a concurrent
    > programming language (Erlang), I consider the current Unix/POSIX/Linux
    > default of having the kernel throw up[*] at the user's current stack
    > pointer to be unbelievably broken. sigaltstack() and SA_ONSTACK should
    > not be options but required behaviour.
    >

    Why? What problem does stack puke cause?
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