Re: Signal handling rewrite for Linux / i386

[Andrew Haley <aph at cambridge dot redhat dot com>]

Bryce McKinlay writes:
 > Andrew Haley wrote:
 > 
 > >+ // Size of a thread's stack
 > >+ #define STACK_SIZE (1024 * 1024)
 > 
 > Is it wise to fix the size of the stack like this? Don't we lose 
 > something by circumventing the kernel's variable-size/floating stack 
 > feature? Certainly, it seems that ulimit -s won't be respected (which 
 > can be useful if you want to run a lot of threads on a 32-bit machine 
 > and avoid running out of virtual memory).

It's already fixed by linuxthreads at 2 megabytes.  Only the main
thread's stack is variable sized.

Andrew.