To: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Daniel Hazelton <dhazelton@enter.net>,
       Anand Jahagirdar <anandjigar@gmail.com>, security@kernel.org,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Patch related with Fork Bombing Atack
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	<25ae38200705312348r3cd02c90h5080617fa1f0a987@mail.gmail.com>
	<200706010325.23185.dhazelton@enter.net>
	<20070601073020.GL32105@kernel.dk>
From: Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>
Emacs: the road to Hell is paved with extensibility.
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2007 00:01:21 +0100
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On 1 Jun 2007, Jens Axboe told this:
> I think Anand is assuming that because syslog may coalesce identical
> messages into "repeated foo times" in the messages file, that it's not a
> dos. That is of course wrong.

Not all syslog daemons do that, anyway. (syslog-ng doesn't, for one.)

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 of the competition, scoring a relatively respectable zero.' --- Peter Corlett
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