> 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
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