Re: question on 'current' task macro, init_task

Darin Johnson (darin@connectnet.com)
Sun, 17 Aug 1997 19:28:12 -0700 (PDT)

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> Kernel stack is only for the kernel. On nearly all architectures
> things look like:

Ah, of course; 'current' is only used in the context of the kernel,
and the kernel gets a stack from the task_struct when in interrupts or
system calls. Too many details scattered over too many files...

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