> This seems misguided.  On a system running w/ DIAGNOSTIC, a user can
> run a simple program that deref's NULL over and over and fill up the
> system log files with it, possibly causing the disk to fill up,
> thereby making it harder to log REAL problems.

The same user can buzz in a loop using sendto() to throw similar
messages at syslog, even without DIAGNOSTIC in the kernel.

Or even a shell loop calling logger(1), which has flags to set the
facility, priority, and tag.

					der Mouse

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