From owner-freebsd-current Tue Apr 13 6: 3:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from phk.freebsd.dk (phk.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.153]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C1CD14CA9 for ; Tue, 13 Apr 1999 06:03:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by phk.freebsd.dk (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA23572; Tue, 13 Apr 1999 15:01:03 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id PAA12289; Tue, 13 Apr 1999 15:01:01 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Mikhail Teterin Cc: dillon@apollo.backplane.com (Matthew Dillon), current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DoS from local users (fwd) In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 13 Apr 1999 08:56:21 EDT." <199904131256.IAA08835@kot.ne.mediaone.net> Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 15:01:01 +0200 Message-ID: <12287.924008461@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <199904131256.IAA08835@kot.ne.mediaone.net>, Mikhail Teterin writes: >Why don't we admit this possibility exists (as well as many others, >perhaps) for a local user to cause a DoS and may be someday someone >will address it? Because we have (counts for a moment, but as he flips to the third page of notes sighs deeply and gives up) more than plenty of things we need to do before that becomes the top priority problem... -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message