Re: Unusual Stacksize Question

[Alan Cox]

> coredump.  I used setrlimit() to set the stacksize limit to infinity.  No
> more core dumps.  But guess what?  Like half the time I now get a kernel
> panic screen dump and the system immediately hangs...  I should think that
> really, as long as you have enough memory, both real and imagined (I made
> that term up too), nothing too bad can happen beyond a coredump maybe.

Core dumps if you have it too large I can believe. A kernel panic is
somewhat more worrying, but some bugs in exec validation did get fixed.
If you can make the 7.1 errata kernel oops as well I'm very interested
indeed.