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Date:      Mon, 13 Sep 2004 13:36:35 -0600 (MDT)
From:      "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        phk@phk.freebsd.dk
Cc:        arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [BIKESHED] Giving abort(2) a reason 
Message-ID:  <20040913.133635.102122423.imp@bsdimp.com>
In-Reply-To: <71269.1095061526@critter.freebsd.dk>
References:  <20040912.153323.115746063.imp@bsdimp.com> <71269.1095061526@critter.freebsd.dk>

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In message: <71269.1095061526@critter.freebsd.dk>
            "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> writes:
: In message <20040912.153323.115746063.imp@bsdimp.com>, "M. Warner Losh" writes:
: 
: >You proposed 'put this into dmesg, with a lot of other stuff and then
: >abort the program.'  I was wanting 'put this into dmesg' and nothing
: >else...
: 
: The reason why I don't like that is that it opens us up to a DoS.
: By having the syscall abort the process we make it a lot harder to
: spam the kernel.

That's actually a good reason...

Warner



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