NEVERMIND!

[Dag-Erling Smørgrav]

"Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg at tristatelogic.com> writes:
> So should I file a PR on this, or what?

*shrug*

I think this falls under the same heading as a fork bomb - one of
thousands of ways local users can screw you over if they want to.

> For example, I can easily envision remotely filling up your /var simply
> by sending you, in rapid succession, a sufficient quantity of malformed
> http requests, or perhaps even just an endless set of minimalist HELO/QUIT
> sequences to your mail server.

or an ssh brute force scan, etc.

In my opinion, this belongs in a system administration textbook, not in
a bug tracker.

DES
-- 
Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des at des.no