Re: RFC/PATCH: Random pid generation

[Sean Hunter]

On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 08:20:54PM +0100, Marcus Sundberg wrote:
> Stephen Frost <[e-mail]> 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