Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
>> PHP being a web server scripting language is a unique case, for example
>> consider that once apache 2.0 becomes stable, safe_mode will become
>> obsolete, on the other hand the situation described here will become
>> quite deadly if some sort of threaded mode is used. So
Jason Greene wrote:
>
>> while(1) fopen(rand(), "w");
>>
>> After a few seconds depending on system speed system will run out of file
>> pointers. I am sure you can see how that would be BAD.
>
> You are _extremely_ incorrect. The previously mentioned code would open
> 1 file descriptor repeat
Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
>> Heh, I am certain that most ISPs admins are not subscribed to the
>> development list of every software they are running, monitoring such
>> lists would be near impossible due to large cumulative volume of email. I
>> am sure some IPSs will do exactly what you suggest and
