Is fork() hook ever possible?
Andrey Chernov
ache at nagual.pp.ru
Wed Sep 17 09:07:45 UTC 2008
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 01:01:01PM +0400, Andrey Chernov wrote:
> > The solution however, is simple: Just have these hidden library calls
> > to arc4random call a wrapper function that does the pid check.
>
> We can control our own arc4random() internal calls inside our own libs in
> such way but can't control 3rd party libs or programs arc4random() calls
> (consider ports). There is no special mentions of pid check needed in
> arc4random() general API, so 3rd party code will tends to not come to that
> matter.
Moreover, in the light of OpenBSD move checking pid, 3rd party code
oriented on OpenBSD will not do so definitely.
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