Re: RFC/PATCH: Random pid generation

[Miquel van Smoorenburg]

In article <[e-mail]>,
Ph. Marek <[e-mail]> wrote:
>My patch allows some kind of
>modification to the current routing which just
>increments the last pid
>until a free pid is found.
>
>Possible are 
>- last_pid+1 (as before);
>-
>complete random (entropy pool);
>- low and/or high byte randomness added;
>-
>multiply last_pid with prime, add another prime;
>- pseudo-random.

Did you make sure that a recently used PID is not re-used immidiately?
Many programs depend on that behaviour.

BTW, the uuencoded part was munged by some email gateway between
you and the linux-kernel mailing list server.

Mike.
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