From owner-freebsd-audit Fri Nov 26 19:59:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-audit@freebsd.org Received: from pawn.primelocation.net (pawn.primelocation.net [205.161.238.235]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C129714C84; Fri, 26 Nov 1999 19:59:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cdf.lists@fxp.org) Received: by pawn.primelocation.net (Postfix, from userid 1016) id A8CCD9B38; Fri, 26 Nov 1999 22:59:52 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pawn.primelocation.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AF6ABA21; Fri, 26 Nov 1999 22:59:52 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 22:59:52 -0500 (EST) From: "Chris D. Faulhaber" X-Sender: cdf.lists@pawn.primelocation.net To: Dan Moschuk Cc: freebsd-audit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The ball starts rolling In-Reply-To: <19991126224819.A18496@november.jaded.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-audit@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 26 Nov 1999, Dan Moschuk wrote: > > To get the ball rolling, I've put online my patch to randomize the order which > PIDs follow. If all goes well, I expect to commit this sometime over the > weekend, followed by another commit the following week to replace the PRNG > with something a little better than random(). > > To use this, you need to set the sysctl knob kern.randompid to 1. > > Diff's against current are available at www.freebsd.org/~dan/randompid.patch > FWIW, it applies fines (with offsets) to -stable. ----- Chris D. Faulhaber | All the true gurus I've met never System/Network Administrator, | claimed they were one, and always Reality Check Information, Inc. | pointed to someone better. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-audit" in the body of the message