On Mon, 07 Oct 2002 15:54:58 EDT, Valdis.Kletnieksat_private said: > set of holes with a kook. I've never understood the LKML's attitude of "don't > even bother because there's other classes of holes" - under THAT logic, the > kernel shouldn't even have the current per-user process limit, since there's > still other ways to hose the system... Oh, and of course, the problem of preventing ALL DoS attacks was explored a LONG time ago: A.M. Turing "On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entschiedungsproblem" Proc. of the London Math. Soc., Ser 2, Vol. 42, pp. 230-265, 1936-37. Causing an infinite loop is a DoS in my book ;)
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