site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com Justin Walker wrote: is this true ? I thought you had to enable an environment variable to make that work or is that just user space ? The kernel doesn't have an environment from which to get variables, so yes, this is just user-space. doh ! of course regardless guard pages are the default in kernel ? S a m ------------------------------------------------------- Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing. _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-kernel mailing list (Darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-kernel/site_archiver%40lists.a... On Mar 3, 2005, at 0:34, Sam Hart wrote: Godfrey van der Linden wrote : Probably not a stack overflow. We have guard vm pages around all of our kernel stacks and if you try to walk of the end of them you will get a panic, unfortunately not usually terribly meaningful as you have just walked over the end of the stack and it can't find a valid frame for the backtrace to start. This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com