On Thu, 15 Jul 1999 01:52:11 +0900 
 "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> wrote:

 > > ...um, so, make the code that deals with faulting in the stack a bit smarter.
 > 
 > Uh? Like what? Like overcommitting, for instance? The beauty of
 > overcommitting is that either you do it or you don't. :-)

One option is to special-case overcommit the stack.  Another is to
set the default stack limits to something more reasonable on a system
where overcommit is disabled.

        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>