From owner-cvs-all Thu Jul 1 1:58:26 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 431F015702; Thu, 1 Jul 1999 01:58:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.1) id KAA75606; Thu, 1 Jul 1999 10:58:08 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from des) To: Warner Losh Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , "Brian F. Feldman" , Julian Elischer , Garrett Wollman , Peter Wemm , 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 References: <43774.930765873@critter.freebsd.dk> <199906302051.OAA32535@harmony.village.org> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 01 Jul 1999 10:58:08 +0200 In-Reply-To: Warner Losh's message of "Wed, 30 Jun 1999 14:51:47 -0600" Message-ID: Lines: 12 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Warner Losh 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