At 2:40 AM -0500 on 3/6/00, Mike A. Harris wrote:
>Maybe 15 years ago. I'm running RedHat 6.1, and after the system
>starts up most persistant daemons have PID's in the 300-1000
>range. I would suspect it would be similar for other dists as
>well.
Another interesting thing about assuming low pids better: Anyone can
get a low pid. Just fork/exit/fork/exit... until you have one. Couldn't
someone come up with a relativly easy DoS attack by gaining a lower PID
than some important program (especially since the importants are in the
300-1000 range), and then blowing all memory on the box (even if
slowly)?
Memory priorities would not allow that.
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