Re: [PATCH] Re: Negative scalability by removal of

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Sun Nov 05 2000 - 17:43:46 EST

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> oh, someone reminded me of the other reason sysvsems suck: a cgi can grab
> the semaphore and hold it, causing a DoS. of course folks could, and
> should use suexec/cgiwrap to avoid this.

The same cgi can killall -STOP httpd
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