From owner-freebsd-current Thu Aug 6 09:12:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA00136 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 09:12:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from esmeralda.xaa.iae.nl (esmeralda.xaa.iae.nl [194.151.75.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA29997 for ; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 09:12:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd@xaa.iae.nl) Received: from ariel.xaa.iae.nl (ariel.xaa.iae.nl [194.151.75.10]) by esmeralda.xaa.iae.nl (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA21281; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 18:12:16 +0200 (MET DST) (envelope-from freebsd@xaa.iae.nl) Received: by ariel.xaa.iae.nl (VMailer, from userid 1008) id AADEC456F; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 18:12:15 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <19980806181215.A7652@xaa.iae.nl> Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 18:12:15 +0200 From: Mark Huizer To: Dusk Auriel Sykotik , Bruce Evans Cc: dg@root.com, narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: memory leaks in libc References: <199808061335.XAA23389@godzilla.zeta.org.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: ; from Dusk Auriel Sykotik on Thu, Aug 06, 1998 at 12:07:04PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message