[6813] in bugtraq
Re: pingflood.c
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Phil Stracchino)
Tue May 19 18:39:56 1998
Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 20:01:43 -0700
Reply-To: Phil Stracchino <alaric@BABCOM.COM>
From: Phil Stracchino <alaric@BABCOM.COM>
X-To: pedward@WEBCOM.COM
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
In-Reply-To: <199805181723.KAA26618@s1000e2> from "pedward@WEBCOM.COM" at "May
18, 98 10:23:32 am"
> void mysleep(int seconds)
> {
> struct timeval tv;
>
> tv.tv_sec=seconds;
> tv.tv_usec=0;
>
> select(0,NULL,NULL,NULL,&tv);
> }
>
> The code above should be portable to every platform that supports the standard
> select(2) semantics. It allows for subsecond precision too. This implementation
> isn't subject to signal dainbrammage either.
However, depending on your platform's implementation of select(), it may
consume idle CPU cycles, causing an artificially high load figure and
possibly stealing cycles from other lower-priority jobs.
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