[RFC]__sock_create() change

Chris Wedgwood cw at f00f.org
Mon May 14 17:51:06 CDT 2007


On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 08:10:30AM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:

> because then a normal user can overflood the system log ;)

they can do that anyhow:

main()
{
    for (;;) {
        if (!fork())
	    *(char*)(0ul) = 1;
        sleep(1);
    }
}

would probably work pretty well on some platforms to overflow the
system log and not go noticed... (i'm sure if you look there are lots
of ways a local user can do similar things)



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