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Date:      Mon, 22 Sep 2014 15:18:54 -0400
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@scsiguy.com>
Cc:        Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>, "Ivan A. Kosarev" <ivan@ivan-labs.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, doc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: libthr and main thread stack size
Message-ID:  <1502207.DmYsYJhHW2@ralph.baldwin.cx>
In-Reply-To: <F0A2DBD9-195E-4F4E-BA36-1F7644827111@scsiguy.com>
References:  <53E36E84.4060806@ivan-labs.com> <20140920170658.GE2210@kib.kiev.ua> <F0A2DBD9-195E-4F4E-BA36-1F7644827111@scsiguy.com>

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On Sunday, September 21, 2014 09:36:25 PM Justin T. Gibbs wrote:
> On Sep 20, 2014, at 11:06 AM, Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> 
wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 03:27:25PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> >> I suspect it was done out of reasons of being overly conservative in
> >> interpreting RLIMIT_STACK. I think it is quite surprising behavior
> >> though and would rather we make your option the default and implement
> >> what the Open Group says above.
> > 
> > Ok, below is the patch.  I felt bad about adding yet another magic and
> > undocumented tunable to our libthr.  Since there seems to be no
> > alternative than a tunable to enforce old behaviour, I documented
> > the quirks I am aware of.
> 
> Why do we need to support the old behavior?  Any program that ran in the old
> model will run in the new.  In the unlikely event that someone was using
> the old scheme for administrative control, there are other mechanisms for
> this already available that we can point them to instead.

I agree with this.  In my experience the issue it has always been the opposite 
(people having issues with the main stack shrinking).

-- 
John Baldwin



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