Re: Why two stacks per process?

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Yes. I agree with Robert. There are two stacks per process. But why cannot we just use one stack as I said earlier?
 
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On 4/24/08, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, 24 Apr 2008, dinesh bansal wrote:

> AFAIK there is only one kernel stack and all the processes share
> that space.

this is incorrect -- each process has its own personal kernel stack
area.

rday

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