From owner-freebsd-current Tue Apr 13 6:51: 6 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 A490015249 for ; Tue, 13 Apr 1999 06:51:02 -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 PAA23785; Tue, 13 Apr 1999 15:48:42 +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 PAA12474; Tue, 13 Apr 1999 15:48:40 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Mikhail Teterin Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DoS from local users (fwd) In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 13 Apr 1999 09:25:05 EDT." <199904131325.JAA08930@kot.ne.mediaone.net> Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 15:48:40 +0200 Message-ID: <12472.924011320@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <199904131325.JAA08930@kot.ne.mediaone.net>, Mikhail Teterin writes: >Poul-Henning Kamp once stated: > >=>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... > >Ok. So, make this the (n+1)th on the list... Why is somebody saying >"FreeBSD can not do this" gets flamed with "other OSes can not >either" or "OS is not supposed to do this"? Because people would rather be hacking code than arguing fine points of irrellevant theoretical issues ? Please let this thread die now. -- 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