Re: RFC/PATCH: Random pid generation

From: Miquel van Smoorenburg (miquels@cistron.nl)
Date: Mon Jan 10 2000 - 19:16:11 EST

In article <cistron.3.0.6.32.20000110082554.009eca80@pop3.bmlv.gv.at>,
Ph. Marek <marek@mail.bmlv.gv.at> 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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