Re: [BUG] get_unmapped_area() change -> non booting machine

[Dave McCracken]

--On Thursday, February 12, 2004 10:19:21 -0800 Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Well, the _common_ case at least for the loader is that the "top of the 
> hole" is actually the stack. So the above would _really_ suck, and crash 
> pretty much immediately ;)

Hmm, good point.  My mental image of the address space tagged the section
at TASK_UNMAPPED_BASE as already allocated.

Dave McCracken

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