Re: System Calls

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On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 09:16:17 +0100, Oliver Korpilla wrote:
> The process descriptor is 2 pages long (8k), or 1 page (4k) when
> configured otherwise. At the "top" (lowest address) resides the process
> descriptor in all its glory, from bottom up the kernel stack grows
> associated with that process, where system calls associated with this
> process have their stack space.

Hm, that "top" (lowest addres) is pretty confusing. It's lowest address, but
that's usually NOT called "top".

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						 Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb@xxxxxx>

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