From: Akinori MUSHA <knu@...>
Date: 2007-02-13T15:20:03+09:00
Subject: Re: [ ruby-Bugs-8541 ] coredump when invoking Kernel:syscall

At Sat, 10 Feb 2007 08:30:41 +0900,
Sam Roberts wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 02:31:48AM +0900, noreply@rubyforge.org wrote:
> > $ r -e 'syscall(0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)'
> 
> If you provide more arguments than rb_f_syscall can use on your system,
> then it won't call syscall (and it will overwrite an array on the
> stack).

Thanks, Sam and Tadashi.  I've just committed a fix to trunk.
Other branches will follow.

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