[BIKESHED] Giving abort(2) a reason
Poul-Henning Kamp
phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Mon Sep 13 00:45:33 PDT 2004
In message <20040912.153323.115746063.imp at 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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