Chris Evans wrote: > WRT the security issues; predictable pids have always assisted the cause > of the cracker. Any extra difficulty we can generate is always > useful. Obviously it's only worth considering for 32bit pids not 16bit.
Same problem with noexec stack... Everybody says that it gives a "false
sense of security"
and some people don't want it to go into mainstream. So the life is :(
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WBR,Mike
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