A Daemon Run As Root

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I wrote this one about 5 years ago, and only found it now.

It sucks.

TTTO “Demon in the Dark” by Kathy Mar)

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<pre>Chorus: I spawn for the lost and killed children

I wait for that silent SIG Child

And if only you would have capabilities

You would not have a daemon run as root

The os of the computer has been brought up, has been started

And the unborn children wait for me to start

I must first initialize my memory and open files

And only then can I call fork() a lot

You broke into the children with some overflowing buffers

And the reading children died as I stood by

What kind of heartless crackers would kill children without even tears

They want to get a daemon who runs as root

I’ve tried with all my failing strength to spawn more or to spawn less

But I cannot put a block on the IP

And as you stage this distributed denial of service attack

I take down the computer as I fall</pre>