Re: MLEN and crashes

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Gary Jennejohn writes:

>Yes, but it was perfectly legal to put the structure on the stack
>_before_ MLEN was doubled.

Just because it worked doesn't mean that it was correct.

We need to be frugal about the kernel stack, for a lot of reasons,
that's just the way it is, and as far as I know it is the way
it will continue to be.

Get used to it.

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