[ On Tue, December 15, 1998 at 17:23:07 (-0500), Michael Cerrato wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: userid partitioned swap spaces. 
>
> The signal
> thing would be great for solving that problem--none of them
> would know how to catch it, and if they did, they presumably
> would know better than to do that.

Indeed.  That's kinda what I was thinking of for the case where students
or other less trustworthy folks were required to be able to write and
run their own programs....

Forcing catchers of the signal to be running as root makes it too hard
to write robust *and* secure systems.

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