Re: A question on kernel stack

From: cs02m023 (kartik@peacock.iitm.ernet.in)
Date: Sun Feb 23 2003 - 02:43:54 EST


What if USER STACK OVERFLOWS in KERNEL MODE ?????

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S.Kartikeyan ,CS02M023

On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, nataraja kumar wrote:

> hi,
> my apologies if i am wrong. please let me know
> why does kernel use kernel stack when process jumps
> from user mode to kernel mode. why can't user stack
> be used ?
>
> nattu.
>
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