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From: ron minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Threads: Sewing badges of honor onto a Kernel
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Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 22:47:38 -0700
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On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 dbailey27@ameritech.net wrote:

> So the question to me is, why would you *want* a unified stack?

well, you don't. It makes programming a nightmare and you need assembly
goo to seperate the stacks after a fork, else you will be stepping on
each others' stack. As the freebsd users of their official version of
rfork() learned, that meant you hit segv walls very quickly. Ouch.

> I see Linus' logic as more of a negation of both efficiency and reliability.

I don't even understand it.

ron