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Date:      Fri, 26 Nov 1999 22:59:52 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Chris D. Faulhaber" <jedgar@fxp.org>
To:        Dan Moschuk <dan@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-audit@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: The ball starts rolling
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911262259160.35034-100000@pawn.primelocation.net>
In-Reply-To: <19991126224819.A18496@november.jaded.net>

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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.

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Chris D. Faulhaber <jedgar@fxp.org>  |  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.




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