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I'm failing to understand how getrusage() works, which is a bit perplexing, because it doesn't seem like it would be terribly complicated. I've attached the code. My aim is to verify that I can use getrusage() to do (admittedly crude) instrumentation of which functions in my program are allocating lots of memory[1]. So I figure I can call getrusage() at various points and look at

Recently i have been using a dialup 56k account to access the net and have noticed that when my ssh session times out and I am editing a file in ` ee ' the system goes to 99% cpu usage and stays like this till the pid is killed. This is a standard user account (not root/su) Would a user be able to create a denial of service condition on the remote system using this bug? (sorry if this is

Hello, Some time ago I wrote PR conf/48170, which discussed the following problem: Syslog messages of facility LOG_AUTHPRIV and priority LOG_NOTICE (or higher) are sent by default to the world-readable log file /var/log/messages. That seems unacceptable since the facility LOG_AUTHPRIV is for hiding sensitive log messages inside a protected file, e.g., /var/log/auth.log. For example, login(1)