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To: Emmanuel Duros <Emmanuel.Duros@sophia.inria.fr>
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Subject: Re: Allocating memory in a network device driver 
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 18:26:18 -0700
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>Do we get the same result with : ?
>
>	u_char buf[BUFSIZ];

   No. That would allocate a large amount of kernel stack space which is
precious and must not be wasted.

-DG

David Greenman
Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project

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