On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Richard Earnshaw wrote:

> > USRSTACK, VM_MIN_ADDRESS and VM_MAXUSER_ADDRESS
>
> These shouldn't be hard-coded into user-land programs.  Instead we should
> have a mechanism for getting the numbers from the kernel.  Then machines
> can set these as appropriate and user-land binaries will continue to work
> correctly.  This information could easily be made available via the
> sysctl(3) interface.

This was discussed on tech-kern in December/January 2000/2001.

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Ben Harris                                                   <bjh21@netbsd.org>
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