Wanted: simple, safe x86 stack overflow detection

From: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 09:27:09 -0500

Can we just put a canary in the threadinfo and check it on every
task switch? What are the drawbacks?
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