Re: Definitions

From: Marc Lehmann (pcg@goof.com)
Date: Mon Aug 14 2000 - 08:33:12 EST

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On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 06:03:38PM +0100, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> Can XYZ evil bastard with the source code construct a non setuid application
> that causes the absolute worst case behaviour and deadlocks or crashes the
> machine.
>
> As I understand it now the answer to that is yes - for reiser, xfs and ext3
> (in fact more so for ext3 than the others)

As I get it demonstrated every day, this is true for 2.2.16, ext2 and/or
reiserfs, trivially, even on 512mb machines. memory full, bad things
happen (e.g. freeze) ;)

> Its a bad idea to ship code with a hard to fix problem that may pop up on

Indeed. Happens all the time, unfortunately :(

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