> actually I was thinking there will be only one stack > in kernel space which will be shared > by all apps. I'm not surprised, I remember being really confused about this too when I was reading Robert Love's book because Robert seemed to be implying this was the case. It took me ages to work out that he meant each thread gets its _own_ stack. Dave's explanation is the clearest I've seen. Thanks, Dave. Cheers Julie _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies