Re: [Real fix] Re: Kernel panic: can't push onto full stack

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@e-mind.com)
Tue, 2 Mar 1999 21:02:57 +0100 (CET)


On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Alexander Viro wrote:

>Darn. Screw #4 - it doesn't solve anything. Add #5: block on close()
>(maybe make it an setsockopt()-controllable). BTW, from my reading of

The attakker can run setsockopt ;).

Blocking on close looks messy to me. Application suppose that close()
doesn't block indefinetely. If we want to sleep in a usually-not-sleeping
path better to sleep in connect() ;).

Andrea Arcangeli

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