On Tuesday 09 May 2006 17:13, Frank Steinborn wrote: > Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: > > Isn't kern.randompid a boolean? TRUE or FALSE? > > No. > > > It is just on or off. 1 means PIDs are random. > > 0 means PIDs are sequential. to be exact, everything > > not being 0, is TRUE. > > That is not true. Peter Pentchev once wrote: > > "The kern.randompid sysctl is not a boolean flag, but an estimate of > the random value that will be added to each newly created pid. For > more information, read the comments in src/sys/kern/kern_fork.c before > the sysctl_kern_randompid() function (around line 150). The function > itself ignores sysctl settings of less than 2." >
Excuse my ignorance. It was an unlucky guess... _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
