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Date:      Wed, 17 Sep 2008 09:24:01 +0000
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Andrey Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
Cc:        Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org>, Max Laier <max@love2party.net>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Is fork() hook ever possible? 
Message-ID:  <89740.1221643441@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 17 Sep 2008 13:01:01 %2B0400." <20080917090101.GC57480@nagual.pp.ru> 

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In message <20080917090101.GC57480@nagual.pp.ru>, Andrey Chernov writes:
>On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 08:04:57AM +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

>> >The situation is not so simple since the library functions can call 
>> >ar4random() internally (like mktemp() family already and always does)
>> 
>> I have a really hard time seeing how this could become a performance
>> issue, ever.
>
>The performance issue happens when application tries to call arc4random() 
>in the loop.

That is not what we are talking about, we are talking about the calls
in mktemp and similar.

>> The solution however, is simple: Just have these hidden library calls 
>> to arc4random call a wrapper function that does the pid check.
>
>We can control our own arc4random() internal calls inside our own libs in 
>such way but can't control 3rd party libs or programs arc4random() calls 
>(consider ports).

We are not obliged to control these calls.  If their authors do something
stupid, it's not our problem.

You are, as usual, trying to vastly overengineer a minor problem that
has a simple solution.

Just have the FreeBSD library calls, call the wrapper function that
does a pid check and be done with it.

-- 
Poul-Henning Kamp       | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
phk@FreeBSD.ORG         | TCP/IP since RFC 956
FreeBSD committer       | BSD since 4.3-tahoe    
Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.



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