From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 25 16: 7: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from InterJet.elischer.org (c421509-a.pinol1.sfba.home.com [24.7.86.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C2AF37B415 for ; Tue, 25 Sep 2001 16:06:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost.elischer.org [127.0.0.1]) by InterJet.elischer.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAA57216; Tue, 25 Sep 2001 16:59:07 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 16:59:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: Bakul Shah Cc: Bernd Walter , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VM Corruption - stumped, anyone have any ideas? In-Reply-To: <200109251610.MAA18919@warspite.cnchost.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 25 Sep 2001, Bakul Shah wrote: > > You can't continue if you run out of the stack in any case > but the issue is what happens when you run off the end of the > stack. In the FreeBSD case you trash the user struct and > discover this problem in a very indirect way and possibly > after trashing god-knows-what-else. in -current we have the guard page below, and the uarea above the stack.. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message