Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2004 17:23:49 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
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William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 03:39:02PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > I don't know how much of a problem this is in practice - there are all
> > sorts of nasty things which unprivileged apps can do to the system by
> > overloading filesystems.  Although most of them can be killed off by the
> > sysadmin.
> > (My infamous bash-shared-mappings stresstest can spend ten or more minutes
> > within a single write() call, but you have to try hard to do this).
> 
> This reminds me; I'm having a chicken and egg problem with several
> stresstests I've written but withheld until fixes for the crashes they
> trigger are available, but the fixes appear to be hard enough to arrange
> they need public commentary to find acceptable methods of addressing
> them. What's the recommended procedure for all this?
> 

A local DoS via resource exhaustion would not be an earth-shatteringly new
development.  Just send 'em out.
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