From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <200008291645.MAA28515@cse.psu.edu> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Stack initialisation From: "rob pike" Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 12:45:20 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 000712d8-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Are you referring to the local stack? Each true process (proc) has a private stack, so it's possible to do things like place a pointer in high memory that points to memory unique to that process, a storage class that's hard to get in fully shared memory. -rob