From gentoo-dev  Wed May 08 20:06:02 2013
From: =?UTF-8?B?Q2jDrS1UaGFuaCBDaHJpc3RvcGhlciBOZ3V54buFbg==?= <chithanh () gentoo ! org>
Date: Wed, 08 May 2013 20:06:02 +0000
To: gentoo-dev
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] OpenRC supporting systemd units
Message-Id: <518AB02A.7050602 () gentoo ! org>
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Michael Mol schrieb:
>> Sounds like a great feature. A crashed process is a buggy one, and I 
>> would want to investigate said program before I relaunched it, and
>> not have it automatically relaunched as if nothing had happened.
> 
> That's highly, highly, highly use-case dependent. If it's a
> non-critical service, or in a non-critical environment, that's one
> thing. If it's a service whose downtime can be measured in value lost,
> that's quite another.

You could be looking at someone trying to compromise your system through a
buffer overflow or similar vulnerability. If you enable automatic respawn
then congratulations, you just gave the attacker unlimited tries to guess
the correct address/offset for his exploit.


Best regards,
Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn