Re: Safe Mode
| From: | Rasmus Lerdorf | Date: | Sat, 11 May 2002 18:28:46 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Safe Mode | ||
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> 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 disable the function, but what about the next
> function which bypasses safe_mode etc...?
> Eventually, they'd need to disable every file system function. Btw here is yet
> another thing against which safemode does not protect.
>
> 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.
That's not safe-mode's job.