From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Wilcox Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 15:03:56 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] Re: [PATCH] Increase size of user stack Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 10:59:38AM -0400, Martin Hicks wrote: > Maybe I'm missing something, but what happens if a process is created > using the default 2GB between the RBS and the stack and sometime > later the process does a setrlimit to 100GB of stack. How do the > stack and RBS get moved around to make enough room between the two > start addresses? They don't. However, the new maximum would take effect for any newly created children. -- "It's not Hollywood. War is real, war is primarily not about defeat or victory, it is about death. I've seen thousands and thousands of dead bodies. Do you think I want to have an academic debate on this subject?" -- Robert Fisk