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Date:      Thu, 6 Aug 1998 18:12:15 +0200
From:      Mark Huizer <freebsd@xaa.iae.nl>
To:        Dusk Auriel Sykotik <syko@sykotik.org>, Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        dg@root.com, narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: memory leaks in libc
Message-ID:  <19980806181215.A7652@xaa.iae.nl>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.980806120525.8578C-100000@vortex.starix.net>; from Dusk Auriel Sykotik on Thu, Aug 06, 1998 at 12:07:04PM -0400
References:  <199808061335.XAA23389@godzilla.zeta.org.au> <Pine.LNX.3.95.980806120525.8578C-100000@vortex.starix.net>

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On Thu, Aug 06, 1998 at 12:07:04PM -0400, Dusk Auriel Sykotik wrote:
> Apache uses them quite frequently.  And this could make it very costly on
> large webservers.  Where I work, we have hundreds of connections to some
> of our webservers per minute.  We also use cgi scripts very frequently,
> and these use *env* functions quite frequently as well.  
> 
> /*
>  *   Matt Harris                   +++   Syko
>  *   BPSOFH, BIOFH, C, SQL, PERL   +++   http://starix.technonet.net/~syko/
>  *   FreeBSD SysAdmin              +++   apocalypse.sykotik.org
>  */

Hmm... then we should write a nice DoS attack for apache, would that be a
reason for solving it?

Mark

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