[ale] PID numbers

Fletch fletch at phydeaux.org
Thu Apr 4 08:41:32 EST 2002


>>>>> "Benjamin" == Benjamin Scherrey <scherrey at innoverse.com> writes:

[...]

    Benjamin> Making code dependent upon upon the relative value of
    Benjamin> another process id is certainly an unsafe practice and
    Benjamin> will result in undefined behaviour.

        Right, and if you ever try and port to OpenBSD (which uses
randomly assigned process ids) you'd have even more headaches.


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