Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 23 Mar 2001 00:27:27 +0000 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init |
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Mikael Pettersson wrote: > > [+] 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? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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