Re: [BUG?] Problem on TCP implementation causes kernel panic

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On Sat, 12 Jun 2004 23:46:52 +0100 (WEST)
"Marcos D. Marado Torres" <marado@student.dei.uc.pt> wrote:

> As we can read on Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt,
> /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_rmem is a vercor of 3 integers (min, default and max)
> which defines the amount of memory reserved/allowed for read buffers for TCP
> sockets.
> 
> If we `echo "0 0 0" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/rcp_rmem`,

The system administrator can shoot himself in the foot if he wants
to.

There is nothing to "fix" here just the same as there is no need
to add special code to deal with root going:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/proc/kmem
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