Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263823AbUDGRQj (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Apr 2004 13:16:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263826AbUDGRQj (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Apr 2004 13:16:39 -0400 Received: from web40514.mail.yahoo.com ([66.218.78.131]:39093 "HELO web40514.mail.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S263823AbUDGRQh (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Apr 2004 13:16:37 -0400 Message-ID: <20040407171636.73813.qmail@web40514.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 10:16:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Sergiy Lozovsky Subject: Re: kernel stack challenge To: David Weinehall Cc: Horst von Brand , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <20040407085733.GJ8130@khan.acc.umu.se> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1596 Lines: 51 --- David Weinehall wrote: > On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 06:34:50PM -0700, Sergiy > Lozovsky wrote: > > > > --- Horst von Brand wrote: > > > Sergiy Lozovsky said: > > > > > > Why do you think it has been 2 pages (8KiB) for > as > > > long as I remember > > > (essentially forever in Linux), and it has taken > a > > > _lot_ of work to shrink > > > it to 4KiB (- size of *current)? > > > > I described the possible solution (virtual stack) > > which can easily take care of this problem for > some > > subsystems, or am I wrong. If code doesn't > allocate > > big buffers in stack my solution can make > conversion > > of existing code possible without _lot_ of work. > (I'm > > lazy - remember :-) > > You know, to me the combination of lazy programmer > rhymes poorly with > well-written code and security audits. Don't take my non technical comments too seriously. Life is too short to be serious all the time. If I was not successful in making a joke - sorry. (there was an old joke that programmers are very lazy people - they don't like to work, so they write programs and computers work for them; I just quoted this joke). Serge. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business $15K Web Design Giveaway http://promotions.yahoo.com/design_giveaway/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/