Re: [9fans] exec() question

[cinap_lenrek@gmx.de]

i think you are right. the temporary tstk segment will be before
the stack segment like:

| txt | dat | bss ... | *unmapedspace* | tstk | stk |

the segattach syscall only makes sure you dont map something after
or overlapping with the stack. so i think you could indeed map
something there and make the front fall off after exec().

you could map a readonly segment there and make the kernel crash
when it tries prepare the new stack.

segattach() also would try to allocate below the lowest possible stack
address when you pass 0 as the address.

maybe the tstk (ESEG) should be placed *after* the stack swaping
tstk and stk like:

#define	TSTKTOP		(VMAP-BY2PG)
#define	TSTKSIZ		100
#define	USTKTOP		(TSTKTOP-TSTKSIZ)
#define	USTKSIZE	(16*1024*1024)

but maybe just making the checks in segattach take the tstk into
account is simpler...

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cinap