On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 05:36:36PM -0400, Jason Dixon wrote: > Nevertheless, you have to ask yourself, what advantage is there to > generating a pid as pid+1, rather than via entropy? If all things > are equal, I would think that random PID generation is simply a > better design. There is, actually, some use in knowing that PIDs are assigned in an incremental fashion. Simply by glancing at a ps output, the savvy sysadmin can identify very old processes. Small, perhaps, but no smaller than any advantage a random PID may give. Cheers, -- Dave Ihnat ignatz@xxxxxxxxxx -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
