Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: A way to shrink process impact on kernel memory usage? | From | David Woodhouse <> | Date | Sat, 10 May 2003 21:43:10 +0100 |
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On Fri, 2003-05-09 at 18:10, Timothy Miller wrote: > Why not allocate an 8k space and put various process-related data > structures at the beginning of it? Sure, a stack overflow could > corrupt that data, but a stack overflow would be disasterous anyhow.
No reason why not at all. That's why we've been doing it this way for years ;)
-- dwmw2
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