Re: posix_fallocate

[Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>]

> [...] this opens a trivial DoS attack like ....

>       for (;;) {
>               ftruncate(fd);
>               posix_fallocate(fd, (off_t)0, huge);
>       }

How, exactly, is this any more of a DoS than doing the same thing but
using one or more write() calls instead of the posix_fallocate()?

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