Re: RFC/PATCH: Random pid generation (2nd try) - sorry

[Alan Cox]

> More and more programs (eg CGI-Scripts) use the PID as pseudo-random number.
> As this isn't really random and easily guessed from the outside (esp. with
> daemons loaded while booting) it's a little bit troublesome.

Mummy my software is broken, please fix it for me. 

> My patch allows some kind of modification to the current routing which just
> increments the last pid until a free pid is found.

No point. Its a 16bit space.  pid randomisation is illusionary extra security at best

Alan