Garance A Drosihn wrote: > >Until newsyslog is fixed to not be able to stage a > >denial of service attack against you, I really, really > >recommend against its use. > > Seems like it would be more user-friendly (to freebsd users > in general) to fix newsyslog, instead of just telling people > that they should not use it... If people "just don't use" > newsyslog, how does that guarantee that whatever they do > use will not have the same problem that you described?
They will have to make their own solutions correct. Every engineer is responsible for the correctness of their code. All I'[m saying here is that there is a known level of incorrectness in newsyslog: use it at your peril. If you want to fix it, I'm sure people would appreciate the effort. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
