[Python-Dev] stack check on Unix: any suggestions?

[Charles G Waldman]

The situation on Linux is damn annoying, because, from a few minutes
of rummaging around in the kernel it's clear that this information
*is* available to the kernel, just not exposed to the user in a useful
way.  The file /proc/<pid>/statm [1] gives as field 5 "drs", which is
"number of pages of data/stack".  If only the data and stack weren't
lumped together in this number, we could actually do something with
it!

[1]: Present on Linux 2.2 only.  See /usr/src/linux/Documentation/proc.txt
for description of this (fairly obscure) file.