Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 10:22:15 +0300 From: Nikos Vassiliadis <nvass@teledomenet.gr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: nospam@mgedv.net, Frank Steinborn <steinex@nognu.de> Subject: Re: kern.randompid: jot generation senseful? Message-ID: <200605101022.16121.nvass@teledomenet.gr> In-Reply-To: <20060509141318.88A0FB822@shodan.nognu.de> References: <000a01c67362$f3d1f3d0$01010101@avalon.lan> <200605091622.30492.nvass@teledomenet.gr> <20060509141318.88A0FB822@shodan.nognu.de>
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On Tuesday 09 May 2006 17:13, Frank Steinborn wrote: > Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: > > Isn't kern.randompid a boolean? TRUE or FALSE? > > No. > > > It is just on or off. 1 means PIDs are random. > > 0 means PIDs are sequential. to be exact, everything > > not being 0, is TRUE. > > That is not true. Peter Pentchev once wrote: > > "The kern.randompid sysctl is not a boolean flag, but an estimate of > the random value that will be added to each newly created pid. For > more information, read the comments in src/sys/kern/kern_fork.c before > the sysctl_kern_randompid() function (around line 150). The function > itself ignores sysctl settings of less than 2." > Excuse my ignorance. It was an unlucky guess...
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