> It is a dual Pentium III running a vanilla linux 2.2.16.
fails for me on 2.4.0-test5/pre4, as expected (segv).
I presume that's because this fairly normal RH config
comes with 8M stack limit. if I unlimit the stack,
the program appears to perform as designed, namely,
your basic forkbomb-like abuse of a slightly different color.
> Bye and thanks in advance for any hint, (--> is there a patch?)
using a modern kernel. or stop hitting your head against the wall.
> PPS: Then man page of alloca tells me, that alloca should return 0
> on error. Try to find that comparison in the assembler
> output of the above mentioned testcase.
Linux doesn't commit VM on allocation. this is usually The Right Thing.
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