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Date:      Thu, 10 Jan 2002 14:39:10 +1100
From:      Gregory Bond <gnb@itga.com.au>
To:        "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: kern/33637: Panic: vm_page_unwire: invalid wire count: 0 
Message-ID:  <200201100339.OAA28995@lightning.itga.com.au>
In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed, 09 Jan 2002 04:30:02 -0800.

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>  Any application is able to cause a kernel panic with just regular library
>  calls.

With respect to Ted, no non-root userland program should be able to panic the 
kernel.  Ever.

Yes, I know about fork-bombs, and malloc-bombs, and that login.conf can stop
them, but they should still never panic the kernel.  That they do (did?) in
FreeBSD is still a (hard-to-fix) bug with a well-known workaround, not an
acceptance of the fact that panics are acceptable.



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