On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 11:11:06AM -0500, Billigmeier, Chad wrote:
> I've a forking server in perl...now having some fun breaking it >;)
> however...the server easilly falls prey to denial of service attacks. I
> tried a scheme with catching alarm but I hear alarm is busted on Solaris.
> Any advice (besides getting rid of Solaris)??? Also, does POSIX::setsid
> work??? The man pages on it are teensie-tiny.
POSIX::setsid does work on Solaris. How is alarm supposed to be broken ? If
you are using alarm to interrupt code, you need to use it from within an eval
{}block as indicated in man 'perlfunc'.
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Jason
