Re: Announce: DinX windowing system 0.2.0

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Mon, 27 Dec 1999 20:18:58 +0000 (GMT)

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> > Kernel stack is TINY. On iX86 it's only 7KiB or so. And when you'll overflow
> > if you'll corrupt you system badly, BTW.
>
> Doh! Ok, I need to learn more. I take it this means recursive in kernel
> is totally a bad idea then?

You should assume you have at best 2-3K of stack to play with. You might have
more but then the IRQ handlers want some too and they run on the current
kernel tasks stack.

Alan

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