Re: [TSVN] interaction between show log dialog and svnserve

stephen meechan wrote:
>>> I've download TortoiseSVN build 3350 and SVN 1.2-rc4 to try out the
>>> new features that have been added.
>>> However I use svnserve and noticed that when using the log dialog,
>>> every press of either "Show All" or "Next 100" leads to a new
>>> thread created within svnserve along with 6 handles and some memory.
>>>
>>> There seems to be no limit on this, you can increase it to hundreds
>>> of threads if you press the buttons often enough.
>>>
>>> All the threads are released once you exit the dialog though.

This sounds potentially serious if it provides a way of launching a DoS
attack on svnserve, which means it is something the SVN devs should know
about I think.

Simon

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