Re: RFC: i386: kill !4KSTACKS

[Dr. David Alan Gilbert]

* Stefan Smietanowski (stesmi@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
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> Alex Davis wrote:
> >>Please don't tell me to "care for closed-source drivers". 
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> > ndiswrapper is NOT closed source. And I'm not asking you to "care".
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> While ndiswrapper might not be closed source, I would not call the
> windows driver it loads open source ...

Would it be possible for ndiswrapper to provide a seperate stack
to the windows code so this problem is seperable?

How debuggable is stack overrun? I mean if I am the unlucky
admin who decides to setup a crypto/raid/stripe/thing setup
which runs out of stack somewhere how easy will it be
for someone who doesn't know the innards to know what
happened as opposed to running into a random oops?

Dave
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