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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!


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