Defensive programming

[Jeremy Fincher]

Jack Diederich <jack at performancedrivers.com> wrote in message news:<mailman.1054463105.27128.python-list at python.org>...
> Specific problems are 
> best solved at specific layers, and DoS attacks that eat CPU are best solved
> at the operating system level.

All the operating system can do is kill the runaway process; how is
that acceptable for multiple client processes?

Jeremy