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On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 12:12:00AM -0600, Matt Mackall wrote: > > I tend to agree with this position, except when it comes to handling > filesystems, where panic is often (but not always) the right thing to > do. Given the choice between crashing the machine or potentially giving an attacker remote root access, I definitely prefer the former in many instances in the network stack. Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt | ||||||||||||
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