From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 15 21:36:28 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA20870 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 15 Sep 1997 21:36:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sendero-ppp.i-connect.net (sendero-ppp.i-Connect.Net [206.190.143.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id VAA20865 for ; Mon, 15 Sep 1997 21:36:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 11807 invoked by uid 1000); 16 Sep 1997 04:36:46 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2-alpha [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199709141011.DAA01459@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 21:36:46 -0700 (PDT) Organization: Atlas Telecom From: Simon Shapiro To: Jason Thorpe Subject: Re: What is wrong with this snipet? Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi Jason Thorpe; On 14-Sep-97 you wrote: > On Sat, 13 Sep 1997 16:34:42 -0700 (PDT) > Simon Shapiro wrote: > > > Why would the following segfault on 6 of the 10 iterations? > > In the FreeBSD implementation of RFMEM (which does not match Plan 9's), > the child gets the same stack as the parent. If you "return" in the > child, > someone's stack gets munched. Not exactly useful, I'd say... --- Sincerely Yours, (Sent on 15-Sep-97, 21:20:55 by XF-Mail) Simon Shapiro Atlas Telecom Senior Architect 14355 SW Allen Blvd., Suite 130 Beaverton OR 97005 Shimon@i-Connect.Net Voice: 503.643.5559, Emergency: 503.799.2313