Subject: Re: increasing a process's max data size
To: None <port-sparc@NetBSD.org, tech-kern@NetBSD.org,>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 09/08/2003 22:32:51
On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 02:32:55AM -0400, Sean Davis wrote:
> Last time I tried that (out of curiosity) I didn't get a kernel panic, I
> just got a real quick reboot :P
> 
> Plus you have to be root for it to work, I don't think you have to be root
> to run squid. Though I haven't touched squid in years, so I dunno.

squid doesn't run as root. If squid can crash the kernel, it's probably
possible to build a program to crash the kernel in the same way, without
being root.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 24 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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