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. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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