> My own personal feeling is that this patch is a Bad Thing simply because
> many of us (fairly or not) use the association of smaller pid == older
> process, esp. when trying to find old daemons or irc clients to kill
> them off.
That's a rather silly thing to do. When the PID wraps (which it will do
after a number of processes have started/stopped, I thought it was
32767),
your trick won't work.
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