Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S274975AbTHPXGh (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Aug 2003 19:06:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S274976AbTHPXGh (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Aug 2003 19:06:37 -0400 Received: from oak.sktc.net ([64.71.97.14]:64493 "EHLO oak.sktc.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S274975AbTHPXGg (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Aug 2003 19:06:36 -0400 Message-ID: <3F3EB8FA.1080605@sktc.net> Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 18:06:34 -0500 From: "David D. Hagood" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030507 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu CC: Michael Frank , linux-kernel Subject: Re: Dumb question: Why are exceptions such as SIGSEGV not logged References: <200308170410.30844.mhf@linuxmail.org> <200308162049.h7GKnwnP024716@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> In-Reply-To: <200308162049.h7GKnwnP024716@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 463 Lines: 18 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: > Consider this code: > > char *foo = 0; > sigset(SIGSEGV,SIG_IGNORE); > for(;;) { *foo = '\5'; } > > Your logfiles just got DoS'ed.... Why not then just log uncaught exceptions? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/