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Slightly off topic, but does anybody know why the OpenBSD community has started using Comic Sans in all their material? Is it some kind of inside joke? I don't find it neither good nor wrong, but there must be some reason behind it.
> Random PIDs > Eliminates race conditions > Say you have a root daemon that forks then the child drops privileges. If you can beat the child you can inherit root privileges Can someone explain this? I don't see what this has to do with the randomness of pids.
Something like after the parent forks, the child opens a file called "/tmp/log.$$" with its PID in the name as root. If you can guess the PID of the child, you could create a link with that name, pointing at a file of your choice that is owned by root, such as "/etc/passwd". Then, you need to make the child do something predictable to that file, such as ensuring that the user supplied data being logged contains text…
There's a project to improve AWS/Xen support, http://www.joelroberts.org/openbsd/
Theo's opinion notwithstanding, what's the best virtualization platform to run OpenBSD? There's a project to improve AWS/Xen support, http://www.joelroberts.org/openbsd/
you are my hero, not just for all the awesome OpenBSD contributions and dedication but for the fact that you still maintain a GOPHER protocol'd site! gopher://gopher.anthrobsd.net/
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And if they didn't mention it others would be here complaining that NetBSD did it first and OpenBSD is just trying to take credit.
And they will copy UBC, uvm locks, WAPBL, device abstraction layer. Just diff their kernel source to 4.3BSD and compare how close they are still. Their kernel is still stuck in the 80s.
"OpenBSD's OpenBGPD responsible for 30% of worldwide BGP communication" Ummm. Citation needed?
In all my years in networking, I've ran exactly one instance of OpenBGPD and that's used simply for real-time updates of (anti-spam) blacklists and whitelists [0,1].
[0]: http://bgp-spamd.net/ [1]: http://www.openbsd.org/papers/asiabsdcon2013/phessler-bgp-sp...
you are my hero, not just for all the awesome OpenBSD contributions and dedication but for the fact that you still maintain a GOPHER protocol'd site! gopher://gopher.anthrobsd.net/
Theo's opinion notwithstanding, what's the best virtualization platform to run OpenBSD? There's a project to improve AWS/Xen support, http://www.joelroberts.org/openbsd/
I use VMware at work, seems to do ok.
Handling truncation correctly with those is just as much work as handling strcat and strcpy correctly. The only difference is that wrong handling of strcat and strcpy have worse effects usually.