Re: stack overflow

[Alan Cox]

On Sad, 2003-09-13 at 00:06, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> What he actually wants is in-kernel user stack overflow checking, which
> is basically impossible since user stacks are demand paged. He's been
> told this before and failed to absorb it.

We will fault and error on a user stack exceed. You need to use
sigaltstack to catch it for obvious reasons. You can also use mmap and
drop in red zones on user space stacks

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