Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 10 Nov 1996 11:43:25 -0700 (MST) | From | Rob Riggs <> | Subject | Re: proc_generic - cool new stuff |
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On 10-Nov-96 root@fomalhout.lunix.org wrote: >what is to stop someone from finding the biggest cached /proc entry >(maybe there is even one you can cause to be big), open that one as many >times as he is allowed to open a file and not close it ? >Depending on how big the /proc entry is, he might drive the kernel out of >memory.
That definitely is a concern. Caching was a bad idea for this very reason. My latest code removes all caching. I hope to have it ready soon.
Rob (rriggs@tesser.com)
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