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
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