Messages in this thread |  | | | From | "Sean Hunter" <> | | Date | Wed, 12 Jan 2000 13:44:56 +0000 | | Subject | Re: RFC/PATCH: Random pid generation |
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On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 08:20:54PM +0100, Marcus Sundberg wrote: > Stephen Frost <sfrost@ns.snowman.net> writes: > > > People use the PID to create temp files and whatnot, > > from what I've seen. > > And they do that in order to get a unique number, not a random number.
This is also a really bad idea, because with easily guessable pids you are opening yourself to /tmp races. This is actually a argument for random pids (or fixing the programs).
Sean
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