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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