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Date:      Mon, 13 Sep 2004 09:45:26 +0200
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [BIKESHED] Giving abort(2) a reason 
Message-ID:  <71269.1095061526@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 12 Sep 2004 15:33:23 MDT." <20040912.153323.115746063.imp@bsdimp.com> 

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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.

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