Re: [gamin] DOS and Gamin 0.1.1

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 01:05:57PM -0500, Mason, Mark L. wrote:
> Question
> 
> It was my understanding from reading the documentation at
> http://www.gnome.org/~veillard/gamin/security.html with regards to DOS
> attacks, that Gamin would detect high frequency events, and fall back
> once-per-second event generation on such files.  What is the explanation
> for the 

  for the ?

There may be a bug, but the fallback to poll every second is implemented
and part of the regression tests. Provide a reproduceable test case please.

Daniel

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