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Michael Mol schrieb: |
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>> Sounds like a great feature. A crashed process is a buggy one, and I |
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>> would want to investigate said program before I relaunched it, and |
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>> not have it automatically relaunched as if nothing had happened. |
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> That's highly, highly, highly use-case dependent. If it's a |
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> non-critical service, or in a non-critical environment, that's one |
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> thing. If it's a service whose downtime can be measured in value lost, |
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> that's quite another. |
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You could be looking at someone trying to compromise your system through a |
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buffer overflow or similar vulnerability. If you enable automatic respawn |
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then congratulations, you just gave the attacker unlimited tries to guess |
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the correct address/offset for his exploit. |
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Best regards, |
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Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn |