Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 18:45:02 +0400 From: Andrey Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru> To: Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is fork() hook ever possible? Message-ID: <20080916144502.GA39765@nagual.pp.ru> In-Reply-To: <BBB443F5-042C-444E-A2F4-592B66FF2003@gid.co.uk> References: <20080916140319.GA34447@nagual.pp.ru> <BBB443F5-042C-444E-A2F4-592B66FF2003@gid.co.uk>
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On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 03:38:16PM +0100, Bob Bishop wrote: > Hi, > > On 16 Sep 2008, at 15:03, Andrey Chernov wrote: > > > I need some sort of fork() hook to detect that pid is changed to re- > > stir > > ar4random() after that (in the child), simple flag variable with > > child's pid is needed. > > > > Currently OpenBSD does almost that checking getpid() every time > > arc4random() called, but it is very slow way to use getpid() syscall > > repeatedly, about 12-15 times slower than just arc4random() without > > getpid(). > > > > Any ideas? > > How about something hacky using mmap()/minherit()? Could you please provide working low cost example to detect that we are in the child (pid changed or something else)? Calling getpid() as OpenBSD does definitely is very high cost. :( -- http://ache.pp.ru/
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