On 11 Jan 2000, Marcus Sundberg wrote:
> "Ph. Marek" <marek@mail.bmlv.gv.at> writes:
>
> > Short summary:
> > More and more programs (eg
> > CGI-Scripts) use the PID as pseudo-random number.
>
> Then they are broken.
People use the PID to create temp files and whatnot,
from what I've seen. That isn't broken, but then again, then
they don't care what the pid is, or if it gets re-used.
Stephen
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