linux-kernel - stack limits [was Re: 2.6.32 -mm merge plans]

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Date:	Wed, 16 Sep 2009 10:45:06 +0200
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: stack limits [was Re: 2.6.32 -mm merge plans]


> - If you were bcc'ed on this email then you and I have unfinished
>   business.  Please see if you can work out what it is from the below and
>   let me know ;)

Was it this?

> #fdpic-ignore-the-loaders-pt_gnu_stack-when-calculating-the-stack-size.patch: pavel unhappy
> fdpic-ignore-the-loaders-pt_gnu_stack-when-calculating-the-stack-size.patch
> 
>   Elf.  Merge.  See if we can make Pavel happy.

It is not a big deal either way -- it is mostly theoretical -- but the
old code seems to be safer in those corner cases. I don't understand
why they are pushing it really.
									Pavel
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