Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 15:48:40 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Mikhail Teterin <mi@kot.ne.mediaone.net> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DoS from local users (fwd) Message-ID: <12472.924011320@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 13 Apr 1999 09:25:05 EDT." <199904131325.JAA08930@kot.ne.mediaone.net>
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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
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