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Date:      Fri, 8 Oct 1999 21:37:42 +0100
From:      Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>
To:        Joe Pepin <joe_pepin@ins.com>
Cc:        FBSDQuestion <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Where (in the source) do PIDs get set?
Message-ID:  <19991008213742.A423@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <NDBBJMHAKKLLMBFNMKDDAEACCGAA.joe_pepin@ins.com>
References:  <NDBBJMHAKKLLMBFNMKDDAEACCGAA.joe_pepin@ins.com>

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Joe Pepin wrote:

> I'd like to start poking around in the source to start learning
> what's up.  My first question is- where do I look to find the piece
> of code that sets a processes' PID?  I've grepped and grepped, but
> with no real luck.  I'm interested in seeing how hard it would be
> to randomize those like in OpenBSD.

Look around line 251 of /sys/kern/kern_fork.c. If you have a different
version, it may vary, look for occurences of "nextpid" and you shouldn't
be far away.

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