From owner-freebsd-current Sun Oct 22 23:21:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from w250.z064001178.sjc-ca.dsl.cnc.net (w250.z064001178.sjc-ca.dsl.cnc.net [64.1.178.250]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2B53037B479 for ; Sun, 22 Oct 2000 23:21:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 3700 invoked by uid 1000); 23 Oct 2000 06:22:06 -0000 Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 23:22:06 -0700 From: Jos Backus To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: -current hangs during boot Message-ID: <20001022232206.B3583@lizzy.bugworks.com> Reply-To: Jos Backus Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20001022193539.A38460@bsdwins.com> <82240.972257916@verdi.nethelp.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <82240.972257916@verdi.nethelp.no>; from sthaug@nethelp.no on Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 01:38:36AM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 01:38:36AM +0200, sthaug@nethelp.no wrote: > Randomized file generation numbers to make NFS attacks more difficult, > as far as I can remember. From p. 315 of the "red devil book": A generation number is assigned to an inode each time that the latter is allocated to represent a new file. -- Jos Backus _/ _/_/_/ "Modularity is not a hack." _/ _/ _/ -- D. J. Bernstein _/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ josb@cncdsl.com _/_/ _/_/_/ use Std::Disclaimer; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message