[BIKESHED] Giving abort(2) a reason

[phk at phk.freebsd.dk (Poul-Henning Kamp)]

In message <20040912_(_dot_)_153323_(_dot_)_115746063_(_dot_)_imp_(_at_)_bsdimp_(_dot_)_com>, "M. Warner Losh" writes:

>You proposed 'put this into dmesg, with a lot of other stuff and then
>abort the program.'  I was wanting 'put this into dmesg' and nothing
>else...

The reason why I don't like that is that it opens us up to a DoS.
By having the syscall abort the process we make it a lot harder to
spam the kernel.

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