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Date:      Fri, 7 Jun 2002 06:26:43 -0700
From:      Maxime Henrion <mux@freebsd.org>
To:        hackers@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        Alexey Privalov <lucky@land3.nsu.ru>
Subject:   Re: randompid
Message-ID:  <20020607132643.GF85244@elvis.mu.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020607200648.M19436-100000@land3.nsu.ru>
References:  <20020607200648.M19436-100000@land3.nsu.ru>

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Alexey Privalov wrote:
> hi all.
> 
> i`m trying to set randompid:
> 
> root@land3# sysctl kern.randompid=1
> kern.randompid: 0 -> 0
> 
> what`s a need to set on?

The value you give to this sysctl is not a boolean, it's a value used in
the formula which computes the randompid.  This value is sanity checked,
that's why giving 1 doesn't do anything.  Here is the code which is
responsible for this :

	if (pid < 0 || pid > PID_MAX - 100)     /* out of range */
		pid = PID_MAX - 100;
	else if (pid < 2)                       /* NOP */
		pid = 0;
	else if (pid < 100)                     /* Make it reasonable */
		pid = 100;

This should give you enough information to chose a good value. :-)

Maxime

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