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Subject: Re: Considering FreeBSD
To: jt@sw.ru (Juri Tsibrovski)
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 1996 11:35:31 +0200 (MESZ)
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In his e-mail Juri Tsibrovski wrote:
> At 09:16 31.07.96 -0700, David Greenman wrote:
> 
> 
> What can prevent me from increasing that number too? I already run modified
> kernel with pids protected  <250, and changed to 300 wrapping point.
> 

Since you've already found the places in the kernel, do you think you
could make it sysctl(2) configurable?  Or is it far too deep for that?

Is it a good idea at all?

/Marino
> ---
> jt -- just typist :)
> 
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