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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init
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?
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