Subject: Re: User can take down system - Re: "diff" loses on large files?
To: Mike Cheponis <mac@Wireless.Com>
From: Greg A. Woods <woods@weird.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 07/12/2001 18:09:18
[ On Thursday, July 12, 2001 at 07:58:17 (-0700), Mike Cheponis wrote: ]
> Subject: User can take down system - Re: "diff" loses on large files?
>
> You know, I found that there is no need to be superuser to bring down the
> system - any unpriviliged user can do it:
You should probably increase your available swap space and decrease the
maximum allowed data-seg size for ordinary users until this bug is fixed!
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