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SubjectRe: PID sequences
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Followup to:  <19980223174907.52885@avanticorp.com>
By author: Jim Nance <jlnance@avanticorp.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Hello all,
> I have been meaning to post this for about a year but I keep
> forgetting :-( I'm waiting on something to finish running, and I
> finally remembered.
>
> I have seen severl posts (over the last couple of years) where
> people complained about either performance or security problems related
> to generating PID numbers for child processes at fork() time. There is
> the assumption that PID numbers increase, skipping over in-use PIDs,
> and then wrap at 32K. I dont think Digital Unix does it this way:
>

All of these assumptions are bad. There are a number of systems which
don't follow this, including AIX.

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