From: quanstro@labs.coraid.com (erik quanstrom)
Subject: [9fans] problem with rminnich's 9vx
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 16:55:42 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <27b5c7f25381327f0c615b33bc23a528@coraid.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9a34bd443b1b0c13ea1c96306f2a2261@terzarima.net>
On Tue Mar 29 16:07:39 EDT 2011, forsyth at terzarima.net wrote:
> >also, since this is the kernel, you either get a 4k or a 4k - sizeof(Mach)
> >structure (depending on if up is set or not), so the maximum sprint
> >to something on the stack is always going to be < 4k.
>
> that's fine, but the sprint is the one from the c library
> which needs to support more than that. the normal kernel doesn't use
> a special one, which is part of the answer to ron's question.
i guess i should have asked more directly, why not pass in
an n such that buf+n = largest possible address. e.g
~(uintptr)buf.
- erik
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-29 20:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-29 9:00 Mathieu Lonjaret
2011-03-29 9:18 ` Noah Evans
2011-03-29 9:25 ` Mathieu Lonjaret
2011-03-29 9:33 ` Noah Evans
2011-03-29 9:47 ` yy
2011-03-29 11:49 ` Mathieu Lonjaret
2011-03-29 15:06 ` Christoph Lohmann
2011-03-29 15:42 ` Mathieu Lonjaret
2011-03-29 16:09 ` ron minnich
2011-03-29 16:20 ` Mathieu Lonjaret
2011-03-29 17:16 ` ron minnich
2011-03-29 20:25 ` Charles Forsyth
2011-03-29 20:16 ` ron minnich
2011-03-29 16:46 ` yy
2011-03-29 15:16 ` ron minnich
2011-03-29 16:44 ` Charles Forsyth
2011-03-29 17:00 ` Charles Forsyth
2011-03-29 19:05 ` erik quanstrom
2011-03-29 19:50 ` ron minnich
2011-03-29 20:20 ` Charles Forsyth
2011-03-29 20:55 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
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