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From: Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: Threads: Sewing badges of honor onto a Kernel
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In-Reply-To: <546b0d5927ae22ab3a714cabaaa0f47a@terzarima.net>; from Charles Forsyth on Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 10:14:32AM +0000
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 12:24:46 +0200
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On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 10:14:32AM +0000, Charles Forsyth wrote:
>
> >>Yeow!  And where do I put the returned address, so that no other thread
> >>can stomp on it?  While I attempt to use it?
>
> the process is running by then on its own stack, so the result is either in
> a register (EAX say) or in a temporary on the stack but either way, it's private.
>
Sure, but I thought the idea was that all storage was shared, except
any that was privately allocated later.  Did I read wrong Torvalds'
comments about the stack being nothing special?  And then a new
private stack comes along?  How is it initialised?  Isn't it a
duplicate?

I think I'm out of my depth.

++L