Re: WANTED: Re: VM lockup with 2.4.8 / 2.4.8pre8

David Ford (david@erisksecurity.com)
Wed, 15 Aug 2001 16:51:34 -0400


Also consider that many places use randomized pids. You can only assume
a few things about pids and that has to be done by evaluating kernel
threads and the init pid.

David

Colonel wrote:

>>I also propose to half badness of processes with pid < 1000 - those
>>processes are usually also important, because they are called during
>>boot-time and they usually handle important system affairs.
>>
>
>The belief that boot started processes remain under a pid < 1000 is
>flawed. Simple example: the postfix mail server.
>

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