From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Nov 30 19:46: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6537D15A6A for ; Tue, 30 Nov 1999 19:44:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id EAA17920 for ; Wed, 1 Dec 1999 04:44:49 +0100 (CET) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id EAA74954 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Wed, 1 Dec 1999 04:44:48 +0100 (MET) Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 758) id B386214D6A; Tue, 30 Nov 1999 19:44:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3E0A1CD7F7; Tue, 30 Nov 1999 19:44:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@hub.freebsd.org) Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 19:44:38 -0800 (PST) From: Kris Kennaway To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Matthew Dillon , 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 In-Reply-To: <89015.943945313@zippy.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > This would fall under my preferred policy, which you didn't quote, namely > > "turn on everything which doesn't have a negative impact, and providing > > Not being able to predict pids (for useful purposes) would fall under > the definition of "negative impact" for a number of admins. Well, I think it would be quite useful by default because of the boost it gives for badly written applications, but I'm certainly not going to go to war over it. I'm content to leave it for the viking contingent to liberate when they sail in on their longboats one cold danish morn :-) Kris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message