Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2000 12:01:21 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Gary Jennejohn <garyj@muc.de> Cc: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, Hellmuth Michaelis <hm@hcs.de>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MLEN and crashes Message-ID: <19865.954756081@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 03 Apr 2000 11:35:02 %2B0200." <200004030935.LAA48677@peedub.muc.de>
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In message <200004030935.LAA48677@peedub.muc.de>, Gary Jennejohn writes: >Yes, but it was perfectly legal to put the structure on the stack >_before_ MLEN was doubled. Just because it worked doesn't mean that it was correct. We need to be frugal about the kernel stack, for a lot of reasons, that's just the way it is, and as far as I know it is the way it will continue to be. Get used to it. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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