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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