Nagaraj wrote: > > Hiiiyooo, > > Ive another silly question. > I gather that max kernel stack allocated for a process > is 8k ( 2 pages ) by the linux kernel. ( correct me if im wrong here ). > > If so, what happens when a dirty recursive program > never stops ? You have a nice big smoking crater in the landscape. Kernel code is carefully written to avoid deep call nesting. The stack isn't even 8k, because the task struct lives in that 2-page block as well. (I'm not sure if GCC is smart enough to do tail-recursion optimization or not, but I wouldn't count on it.) Cheers, -- Joe "I'd rather chew my leg off than maintain Java code, which sucks, 'cause I have a lot of Java code to maintain and the leg surgery is starting to get expensive." - Me -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
