Re: [PATCH] overcommit symbolic constants

[Alan Cox]

On Iau, 2004-09-30 at 14:41, Andries.Brouwer@xxxxxx wrote:
> Played a bit with overcommit the past hour.
> Am not entirely satisfied with the no overcommit mode 2 -
> programs segfault when the system is close to that boundary.

Not really a suprise. Very few programs handle stack growth faults.
Hence the docs comment about mmapping stacks privately for critical
code.

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