Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: no crash after setting ESP to 0 in module | From | Julien Oster <> | Date | Wed, 25 Jun 2003 10:57:21 +0200 |
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Mikulas Patocka <mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> writes:
Hello Mikulas,
>> Where's the magic?
> Processor will do double fault prior to triple fault. Double fault > exception 8 points to a task switch gate --- and task switch doesn't > require correct ESP. So it loads new ESP from task state segment of that > gate and calls doublefault_fn.
A task switch gate! Finally that makes sense to me. Thanks for pointing this out!
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