Skip to main content
Unix & Linux

You are not logged in. Your edit will be placed in a queue until it is peer reviewed.

We welcome edits that make the post easier to understand and more valuable for readers. Because community members review edits, please try to make the post substantially better than how you found it, for example, by fixing grammar or adding additional resources and hyperlinks.

6
  • What is the benefit? Commented May 28, 2015 at 13:36
  • 3
    @jordanm: Warm, fuzzy feelings of security. See the recent discussion about that on the OpenBSD misc list for some perspective. Commented May 28, 2015 at 13:39
  • 1
    @jordanm: That's precisely what I'm investigating ;). For some people it seems to be a mandatory basis for a secure system, for other something useless, and some consider it to be even something negative. Sadly nobody seems to have a concrete answer on Security SE so I finally had to answer myself with a yet-to-complete answer since I found at least interesting differences in the OpenBSD and FreeBSD approaches, and was therefore curious of the mentioned Linux version of random PIDs (if there is really one). Commented May 28, 2015 at 13:43
  • @lcd047: I know this discussion very well since I was the guy "trolling" that list by trying to understand and compare the different choices made by different OSes. Commented May 28, 2015 at 13:47
  • @WhiteWinterWolf: For Linux, one of the popular kernel patches used to do that at some point. I recall that patch being grsecurity, but I might be wrong. I haven't really looked at Linux all that closely in a few years. Commented May 28, 2015 at 13:53