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SubjectRe: no crash after setting ESP to 0 in module
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Mikulas Patocka <mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> writes:

Hello Mikulas,

>> Where's the magic?

> Processor will do double fault prior to triple fault. Double fault
> exception 8 points to a task switch gate --- and task switch doesn't
> require correct ESP. So it loads new ESP from task state segment of that
> gate and calls doublefault_fn.

A task switch gate! Finally that makes sense to me. Thanks for
pointing this out!

Regards,
Julien
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