Date: 01 Jul 1999 10:58:08 +0200 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> To: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, "Brian F. Feldman" <green@unixhelp.org>, Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>, Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern init_main.c kern_fork.c kern_linker.c vfs_aio.c src/sys/sys proc.h Message-ID: <xzpd7yczqzj.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: Warner Losh's message of "Wed, 30 Jun 1999 14:51:47 -0600" References: <43774.930765873@critter.freebsd.dk> <199906302051.OAA32535@harmony.village.org>
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Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> writes: > Wouldn't a reference count work? That way you could mark the process > as dead and when something wakes up that is holding a reference to the > pid, it could check to see if the process was alive. If not, it could > release its reference. The pid wouldn't be reused until the reference > count reached zero... This opens new possibilities for interesting Denial of Service attacks... DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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