Subject: Re: userid partitioned swap spaces.
To: NetBSD Kernel Technical Discussion List <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@jocelyn.rhein.de>
List: tech-kern
Date: 12/18/1998 20:38:53
On Fri, Dec 18, 1998 at 12:02:06PM -0500, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> /etc/login.conf.
> 
> Also note that a process which runs out of stack space either because it
> has exceeded the maximum limit assigned to it, or simply because there's
> no more swap space available, must (at least in the Unix way of doing
> things) be sent some kind of signal, and whether or not the runtime
> system tries to help the process keeps running by re-arranging stack use
> or sleeping or something; or wehter it is simply killed, depends on,
> well, on whether or not the program was programmed to handle this kind
> of "exception" or not.

With UVM, it gets such a signal. At least thats promised in the docs.

	-is