Re: RFC/PATCH: Random pid generation

From: Marcus Sundberg (erammsu@kieraypc01.p.y.ki.era.ericsson.se)
Date: Tue Jan 11 2000 - 14:20:54 EST

Stephen Frost <sfrost@ns.snowman.net> 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.

//Marcus 

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