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From: Charles Randall <crandall@matchlogic.com>
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Subject: RE: The stack size for a process?
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 10:22:46 -0700
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From: Jason Evans [mailto:jasone@canonware.com]
>Thread stacks have a default size of 64kB.

As you know, stack size can be explicitly set using
pthread_attr_setstacksize().

However, note that Solaris uses a pthread stack size of 1 MB. Porter beware.

>libc_r now uses growable stacks with "guard pages" between stacks
>to try to catch stack overflow.

In this case, is there a message printed to the console or syslog that tells
the programmer/sysadmin what's happening?

Charles


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