Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 7 Apr 2004 10:16:36 -0700 (PDT) | From | Sergiy Lozovsky <> | Subject | Re: kernel stack challenge |
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--- David Weinehall <tao@acc.umu.se> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 06:34:50PM -0700, Sergiy > Lozovsky wrote: > > > > --- Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl> wrote: > > > Sergiy Lozovsky <serge_lozovsky@yahoo.com> said: > > > > > > Why do you think it has been 2 pages (8KiB) for > as > > > long as I remember > > > (essentially forever in Linux), and it has taken > a > > > _lot_ of work to shrink > > > it to 4KiB (- size of *current)? > > > > I described the possible solution (virtual stack) > > which can easily take care of this problem for > some > > subsystems, or am I wrong. If code doesn't > allocate > > big buffers in stack my solution can make > conversion > > of existing code possible without _lot_ of work. > (I'm > > lazy - remember :-) > > You know, to me the combination of lazy programmer > rhymes poorly with > well-written code and security audits.
Don't take my non technical comments too seriously. Life is too short to be serious all the time. If I was not successful in making a joke - sorry.
(there was an old joke that programmers are very lazy people - they don't like to work, so they write programs and computers work for them; I just quoted this joke).
Serge.
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