From owner-freebsd-audit Sun Dec 5 12:16:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-audit@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 980AD15445; Sun, 5 Dec 1999 12:16:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (root@d60-025.leach.ucdavis.edu [169.237.60.25]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA27177; Sun, 5 Dec 1999 12:16:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id MAA69201; Sun, 5 Dec 1999 12:16:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1999 12:16:43 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: arch@FreeBSD.ORG, audit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf files.i386 src/sys/kern kern_fork.c src/sys/libkern arc4random.c src/sys/sys libkern.h Message-ID: <19991205121643.A69177@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG References: <89015.943945313@zippy.cdrom.com> <99Dec1.091202est.40330@border.alcanet.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <99Dec1.091202est.40330@border.alcanet.com.au>; from jeremyp@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au on Wed, Dec 01, 1999 at 09:19:18AM +1100 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-audit@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Dec 01, 1999 at 09:19:18AM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: > >Not being able to predict pids (for useful purposes) would fall under > >the definition of "negative impact" for a number of admins. > > I agree. Digital UNIX uses something like random PID generation and I Well there you go, we now have an example that you can't depend on the linear behavior in Unix. So we have a strong case for making random PIDs the default. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-audit" in the body of the message