[2014] in bugtraq
Re: Exploit for Linux wu.ftpd hole
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan Lawson)
Sun Jul 9 23:16:16 1995
Date: Sun, 9 Jul 1995 15:56:35 -0700
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From: Nathan Lawson <nlawson@statler.csc.calpoly.edu>
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.950708140807.3259A-100000@phoenix.org> from "Mike
Edulla" at Jul 8, 95 02:13:35 pm
> Yes, i've since discovered this. And the writes dont return a error. Hmm,
> how slow would fstat()ing the log file before writing be, it shouldnt be
> *too* bad.
The only problem I see here is that this should be done before writes, not
periodically. If it was done every few minutes, it would cause a penalty
in swapping into memory, especially on machines with limited memory. I'd like
to see more Unix daemons designed to wake up as little as possible.
-Nate
