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Subject: Re: !!!really, really big problem with *BSD!!!
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At 11:28 PM 12/16/1999 , Bosko Milekic wrote:

>         This situation has been fixed, in two different ways which, for what
>   concerns this particular "problem" (really, it's a resource exhaustion)
>   in -CURRENT:
>
>         (a) Limit sockbuf size.
>
>         (b) Code has been added to -CURRENT which will prevent the system
>         from going down. (e.g. panic()).

Will there also be a fix in 3.4?

--Brett


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