> And if you can't illustrate a few explicit cases, further abstract arguments > are likely to be politely, but firmly, ignored. There are good C language > forums for folks to carry on such religious arguments. > > Or to put it another way, the dev@ group here is most certainly not worried > about the general case, as the current design is effective at terminating > httpd when faced with runaway allocations.
Sure ok :) You have no complains from me really here. Just this could be an issue on some platform with some mods potentially :) I only asked this list because the mod_wsgi guy wasn't checking the result of memory allocation. The rational as I see it is: there is only a few cases where this can happen 1: and 2: first the attacker has to find a way to reduce system memory to an almost oom condition by the looks of it. -- I dote on his very absence. -- William Shakespeare, "The Merchant of Venice"
