On Fri, 1 Jun 2007, Anand Jahagirdar wrote: > when they try to flood the syslog using fork bombing attack, their > messge will be printed only once in syslog and it will show how many > times it has repeated. due to this he will not able to flood the > syslog.and i am using only one single variable in my printk messge so it > is quite not possible to flood the syslog.
Your argument is flawed - if the kernel provides more than one possibility to flood the syslogd, the is free to invoke the events interleaved. This trivially prevents syslogd from grouping identical reports together. -- Jiri Kosina - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
