From owner-freebsd-current Mon Apr 3 3: 2:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AADE637BF33 for ; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 03:02:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost.freebsd.dk [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA19867; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 12:01:22 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Gary Jennejohn Cc: Alfred Perlstein , Hellmuth Michaelis , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MLEN and crashes In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 03 Apr 2000 11:35:02 +0200." <200004030935.LAA48677@peedub.muc.de> Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2000 12:01:21 +0200 Message-ID: <19865.954756081@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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