Re: Why two stacks per process?

["Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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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