From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Dec 1 7:25:27 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 A168615AF1 for ; Wed, 1 Dec 1999 07:25:07 -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 QAA27629 for ; Wed, 1 Dec 1999 16:25:06 +0100 (CET) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id QAA77241 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Wed, 1 Dec 1999 16:25:06 +0100 (MET) Received: from jade.chc-chimes.com (jade.chc-chimes.com [216.28.46.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4718F14CFB; Wed, 1 Dec 1999 07:24:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from billf@chc-chimes.com) Received: by jade.chc-chimes.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id EB9E81C2B; Wed, 1 Dec 1999 09:25:49 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jade.chc-chimes.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1D6E381B; Wed, 1 Dec 1999 09:25:49 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 09:25:49 -0500 (EST) From: Bill Fumerola To: Peter Wemm Cc: Sheldon Hearn , arch@freebsd.org, "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Matthew Dillon , billf@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: <19991201151955.CA04B1CA0@overcee.netplex.com.au> 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 Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Peter Wemm wrote: > At the risk of continuing the debate, what I would prefer would be a sysctl > to define the range of a random increment to the nextpid, so there is an element > of randomness still but you're going to get a steadily increasing set of pid's > still. Why must you always come up with the really good solution? :-> -- - bill fumerola - billf@chc-chimes.com - BF1560 - computer horizons corp - - ph:(800) 252-2421 - bfumerol@computerhorizons.com - billf@FreeBSD.org - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message