From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 8 11:42: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from emcmail.lss.emc.com (emcmail.lss.emc.com [168.159.48.78]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F70914FB5 for ; Fri, 8 Oct 1999 11:42:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joe_pepin@ins.com) Received: from pepinj ([168.159.204.214]) by emcmail.lss.emc.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA27597 for ; Fri, 8 Oct 1999 14:41:54 -0400 (EDT) From: "Joe Pepin" To: "FBSDQuestion" Subject: Where (in the source) do PIDs get set? Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 14:43:12 +0100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, all. 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. TIA, Joe Pepin ~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~= Joe Pepin Network Systems Engineer Security Practice International Network Services http://www.ins.com/ “The Knowledge Behind the Network” The views/opinions expressed above are not necessarily those of my employer, but they probably should be. ~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message