Re: Unusual Stacksize Question

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Wed Dec 26 2001 - 16:01:17 EST


> coredump. I used setrlimit() to set the stacksize limit to infinity. No
> more core dumps. But guess what? Like half the time I now get a kernel
> panic screen dump and the system immediately hangs... I should think that
> really, as long as you have enough memory, both real and imagined (I made
> that term up too), nothing too bad can happen beyond a coredump maybe.

Core dumps if you have it too large I can believe. A kernel panic is
somewhat more worrying, but some bugs in exec validation did get fixed.
If you can make the 7.1 errata kernel oops as well I'm very interested
indeed.

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