Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.

Re: MacOS X has major CGI bug...

Author:William Crim
Posted:6/4/1999; 6:10:54 PM
Topic:MacOS X server vs. NT's IIS
Msg #:7028 (In response to 7016)
Prev/Next:7027 / 7029

Read about it at... http://www.heise.de/ct/english/99/13/186/

Basicly the story says that if 32 processes repeatedly ask for a cgi program, it will send the thing into kernel panic forcing the operator to do a cold boot. They say it is reproducable and there is even a test script that you can run that will crash the server.

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