linux-kernel - Re: i386-show-unhandled-signals-v3

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Message-Id: <20070725140455.cbbc0dde.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Wed, 25 Jul 2007 14:04:55 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
Cc:	Kirill Korotaev <dev@...nvz.org>,
	Masoud Asgharifard Sharbiani <masouds@...gle.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: i386-show-unhandled-signals-v3

On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 16:57:43 +0200
Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de> wrote:

> On Wednesday 25 July 2007 16:45, Kirill Korotaev wrote:
> > plz don't enable it by default... :/
> > any user can spam syslog with these messages and if syslog is run as root
> > can take the whole diskspace...
> 
> There are plenty of other ways to cause syslog messages anyways;

tell us what they are and we'll fix them?

> this argument is 100% bogus.

people don't like leaving themselves open to logspamming.

For this particular issue: someone please send a patch.
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